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CHISHOLM’S 
WHITE - MOUNTAIN 
GUIDE-BOOK 


BY 

M. F. SWEETSER, 

AUTHOR OF “TICKNOR’S AMERICAN GUIDE-BOOKS,” “CHISHOLM*! 

DESERT GUIDE,” ETC., ETC., ETC. 



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By HUGH J. CHISHOLM. 

Revised 1917 


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PREFACE, 


An honest endeavor is made, in these pages to present a 
Guide-book to the White Mountains which shall be in¬ 
expensive without being venal, treating the great moun¬ 
tain-hotels and routes as effects, rather than causes, and 
considering them more in the light of episodical adjuncts 
than as the chief purposes of the tourist's excursion into 
New Hampshire. The main stress is laid on the natural 
scenery of the White Hills, and the romantic history and 
legends connected therewith, in the belief that these are 
the things which induce travellers to journey thitherward, 
rather than even the very creditable works of constructive 
and gastronomic art which may be found there during the 
tour. An attempt has also been made to clear the text 
from the encumberment of figures and lists, by grouping 
at the end tables of the distances from the chief hotels and 
resorts to the objects of interest in their vicinity; lists of 
the hotels and boarding-houses, with the extent of their 
accommodations, and their prices; and tables of the alti¬ 
tudes of the various mountains, lakes, villages, and hotels. 


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ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 


Summer Hotels and Boarding Houses, and Prices 
Distances from Villages to Places of Interest.... 
Altitudes. 


Adams, Mount.73, 90 

Alpine Cascades.144 

Alton Bay, 

20, 126,136,147, l r 2,171 

Arethusa Falls.53 

Bartlett, 

45,147,165,167, 172 

Basin, The.106 

Beecher’s Cascades.... 52 

Belknap, Mount.136 

Bernis.47 

Benton Range...... .117 

Berlin Falls, 

143, 148-, 162, 171 

Bethel.137, 148, 162 

Bethlehem.. .79, 162, 171 
Bird’s-eye View... 10-11 

Black Mountain.113 

Boston & Maine R. R., 

14 18 28 
Bndgton. .28, 30,149,162 
Bridgton & Saco 

River R. R.30 

Campton, 

111, 112, 149,162 
Cannon Mountain.... 100 
Carriage Road, Mount 


Washington.74 

Carrigain, Mount.46 

Cathedral Woods..35, 45 
Centre Harbor, 

126, 130, 150, 163, 171 

Cherry Mountain.89 

Chocorua.29 

Clay, Mount.73 

Clinton, Mount..57 

Colebrook.93 

Concord.121 

Connecticut Lakes... .95 
Conway..35, 87. 150, 163 
Conway Junction.. 17, 28 

Copple Crown.130 

Crawford, Abel.47 

Crawford House.51 

Crawford Path..57 

Crystal Cascade. . .75, 76 


Diamond Pond.95 

Dixville Notch.94 

Eastern Division, 

B. & M. R. R.14 

Echo Lake.100 

Fabyan House, 51,58,123 

Fall River Line.12 

Flume House, 

105, 163, 172 

Flume, The.•_106 

Franconia.... 83, 151, 163 


Franconia Mountains.. 96 

Frankenstein.48 

Fryeburg... .25, 151, 164 
Georgianna Falls .... 106 

Glen Ellis Falls.76 

Gorham, 141,152,164,171 

Grand Trunk Ry.137 

Haverhill,19,152,164,171 

Hayes, Mount.142 

Holderness.11 1 , 153 

International Line... .20 

Intervale..37, 45, 153 

Introduction.7 

Jackson Falls, 

38, 153, 164, 171 

Jacob’s Ladder.65 

Jefferson Hill, 

86, 154, 164, 171 

Jefferson, Mount.73 

Kearsarge.36 

Lafayette, Mount.... 104 

Laconia.121, 154, 165 

Lake Village.121 

Lancaster, 91,154,165,171 
Lead Mine Bridge.... 141 
Littleton. 

85, 122, 155, 165, 171 

Lonesome Lake.103 

Lowe’s Path.90 

Madison, Mount.73 

Magalloway River .... 94 
Maine Central R R., 

24, 42, 02 

Manchester.. 121 

Maps..10-1 i, 58-59 
Maplewood, 

:0, 123, 155, 172 

Middle Mountain.37 

Milan.144 

Moat Mountain-35, 36 

Moosilauke..115 

Morgan Mountain.. ..112 

Moriah, Mount.143 

Mount Adams Path . 90 
Mount Pleasant . 27, 57 
Mount Pleasant House.57 
Mount Washington.. .65 


Mount Washington 

Railway.62 

Mount Washington, 

The (Hotel).58 

Nancy’s Brook..46 


Newbury ... 122, 157, 166 
North Conway, 

26. 30. 31. 157, 166, 171 
North Woodstock,114,157 

Osceola, Mount.113 

Ossipee.28. 157, 171 


pages 147-161 
162-168 
169-172 

Ossipee Park.134 

Pemigewasset, Mt.... 106 
Pemigewasset Valley 

R. R.109, 114 

Pilot Mountains.91 

Pleasant, Mount.. .27, 57 
Plymouth, 

110, 122, 158, 166 

Pool, The.105 

Portland.18, 23 

Portland & Ogdens- 

burg R. R.24 

Presidential Range.7 

Profile, The.100 

Profile House.99 

Prospect. Mount. .92, 111 
Randolph Hill... 143,158 

Rangeley Lakes.93 

Red Hill.. 133 

Ripley Falls.53 

Sandwich Dome.112 

Sebago Lake 25, 26, 158 

Silver Cascade.53 

Silver Lake.30 

Songo River.27 

Squam Lake.134 

Starr King, Mount_90 

Sugar Hill.84, 159 

Sugar Loaf.....117 

Thornton.114, 172 

Thorn Mountain.41 

TuckermaVs Ravine. .77 

Tunnel Falla...106 

Twin Mountain House, 
60, 123, 159, 172 

Walker’s Falls.103 

Warren, 115,122,160,167 
Washington, Mount...65 
Water ville, 

112, 160, 167, 172 
Weetamo, Mount.... 112 
Weirs.. 121, 129, 135, 160 

Welch Mountain.112 

Wells River.122 

West Campton. .114, 160 

West Ossipee.29. 161 

Whitefield.86, 161 

White Mt. Notch.42 

White Mountains.7 

Willard, Mount.52 

Willey House Site....54 

Willey, Mount.54 

Winnepesaukee Lake, 

20, 28, 121, 124 
Wolfeboro. ..28, 129, 161 
Woodstock.114, 161 














































































































INTRODUCTORY, 


The White Mountains of New Hampshire cover an area 
of abcut thirteen hundred square miles, between the Maine 
border and the Connecticut Valley, the Androscoggin, Up¬ 
per Ammonoosuc Valley, and the basin of Lake Winne- 
pesaukee. The central chain of mountains, sometimes 
called the Great Range, or the Presidential Range, is thir¬ 
teen miles long, extending from Mount Madison to Mount 
Webster in a direction of south-south-west, and culmi¬ 
nating in the lofty peak of Mount Washington. The 
group carries snow through nearly half the year, and on 
account of this circumstance received the name of the 
White Mountains from the early settlers along the New 
England coast more than two centuries ago. Several 
leagues to the south-west are the Franconia Mountains, 
and various other groups and ranges are found in all direc¬ 
tions. The almost infinite variety of scenery in this 
region constitutes its great charm, and gives it a perennial 
interest, even to those who have seen loftier and more 
famous mountain-lands. Scores of thousands of tourists 
enter this district every summer, coming from all parts of 
the Republic, and even from beyond seas, and each finding 
here that which can please and benefit. There is a mar¬ 
vellous variety of colors, the differing rock-formations of 
the peaks giving rich contrasts of browns and grays, 



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blacks, whites, and reds, around which the all-pervading 
green of the forests sweeps like a vast undulating sea. 

There are several first-class railroads traversing the 
valleys of the White-Mountain region, and a few well- 
served stage-lines, bringing all the principal points within 
easy reach, and yet leaving hundreds of miles of remoter 
roads to be explored by private conveyance or on foot. 
Many first-class hotels and scores of boarding-houses of 
various grades are adequate to the accommodation of 
thousands of guests. The season begins feebly in June; 
grows more lively all through July; and is at its height in 
August, when nearly all the public houses are full and 
overflowing. In September and October the “city folks” 
return to their homes beside the paved streets, invigorated 
and refreshed by their visit to the highlands, and feeling 
the pulsings of a new life in their veins. 



CONTENTS. 


CHAPTER I. 

The Routes from New York, the South, and the West to 
the White Mountains.—The Sound Lines.—The 
Lines by Rail. — From Saratoga to the Mountains. 

— From Montreal and Quebec to the White Moun¬ 
tains . . . ..ii 

CHAPTER II. 

The Route from Boston to Portland. — The Eastern 
Division, Boston and Maine Railroad, and its cities. 

— The Western Division, Boston and Maine Rail¬ 
road — The Route by Sea. — Portland . . .14 

CHAPTER III. 

The Route from Portland to the White Mountains. — 
Sebago Lake.—Fryeburg. — The Eastern Division, 
Boston and Maine Railroad, to North Conway . 24 

CHAPTER IV. 

North Conway and its Attractions. — Jackson Falls . 31 

CHAPTER V. 

The White-Mountain Notch. —The Maine Central Rail¬ 
road. from North Conway to Fabyans.—The 
Crawford House.—The Mount Pleasant House.— 

The Mount Washington —The Fabyan House.— 

The Twin-Mountain House , . . , .42 

CHAPTER VI, 

Mount Washington.—The Mountain Railway.—The 
Summit. — The View.—Mounts Clay, Jefferson, 
Adams, and Madison.62 



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CONTENTS. 


CHAPTER VII. 

The Glen. —The Mount-Washington Carriage-Road. — 

The Waterfalls and Ravines near the Glen House 
Site.74 


CHAPTER VIII. 

The Villages of the Western Valleys.—Bethlehem.— 
Franconia. — Sugar Hill. — Littleton. — Whitefield 
and Dalton. — Jefferson Hill. — Lancaster . . 79 

CHAPTER IX. 

The New Profile House and its Surroundings. — The 
Franconia Mountains.—Mount Lafayette.—The 
Flume House ........ 96 

CHAPTER X. 

Plymouth. — Campton and Waterville.—The Pemige- 
wasset Valley..—Moosilauke . . . . .110 

CHAPTER XI. 

The Western Avenue. — The Route from Boston to 
Lowell. Concord, and Lancaster, and the West Side 
ot the Mountains.u8 


CHAPTER XII. 

Lake Winnepesaukee and its Surroundings.—Wolfebor- 
ough and Centre Harbor. — Squam Lake.—The 
Routes by the Boston and Maine Railroad 

CHAPTER XIII. 

Bethel. — Shelburne. — Gorham. — Berlin Falls. — The 
Route from Portland to the Northern Side of the 
Mountains . 





BIKDS-EYE VIEW OE THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. 


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Mount 

Washington. 

2 . 

Mount 

Jefferson. 

3. 

Mount 

Adams. 

4. 

Mount 

Madison. 

5 . 

Mount 

Monroe. 

6 . 

Mount 

Franklin. 


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Mount Pleasant. 

13. 

Mount Lafayette. 

20. 

Mount Crawford. 

26. 

Double Head. 

8. 

Mount Webster. 

14. 

Mount Lincoln. 

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Giant’s Stairs. 

27. 

Mount Wild-Cat. 

9. 

Mount Tom. 

15. 

Mount Liberty. 

22. 

Mount Langdon. 

28. 

Mount Carter. 

10. 

Mount Willey. 

16. 

Profile Mountain. 

23. 

Tuckerman’s Ravine. 

30. 

Mount Kiarsarge. 

11. 

Twin Mountain. 

17. 

Mount Kinsman. 

24. 

Carter Dome. 

3 1. 

Moat Mountain. 

12. 

Mount Garfield (The Haystack). 

18. 

Mount Pemigewasset. 

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CHAPTER l. 

THE ROUTES FROM NEW YORK, THE SOUTH, AND THE WEST TO 
THE WHITE MOUNTAINS—THE SOUND LINES—THE LINES 
BY RAIL.—FROM SARATOGA TO THE MOUNTAINS.—FROM 
MONTREAL AND QUEBEC TO THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. 

THE THROUGH CAR LINES. 

Of the host of health and pleasure seekers who journey 
season after season to the beautiful highlands of New 
Hampshire, the majority come from the teeming cities of 
Boston, Greater New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and 
Washington. What wonder then that admirable train ser¬ 
vice is provided, with New York City, or Boston, the dis¬ 
tributing points. 

During late years the advantage of through train ser¬ 
vice from the Grand Central in New York, to Portland, 
Maine, the threshold of the White Mountains, has been 
granted the traveller, using the route via Worcester and 
avoiding the transfer at Boston. 

By this route one leaves New York at 8 p. m. daily 
(except Sunday) in a train of many sleeping cars, arriving 
at Portland at 6.30 a. m. The Mountain Division train of 
the Maine Central leaves Portland at 9.10 a. m., running 
via the Wonderland of the Crawford Notch and reaching 
all White and Franconia Mountains resorts by early 
afternoon. 


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Also a through train from the Grand Central station 
leaves New York at a comfortable hour of the morning, 
and, running via the Connecticut Valley Route, reaches 
Fabyans at 7.55 p. m. Connecting trains of the Maine Cen¬ 
tral Railroad convey travellers to all resorts down through 
the Crawford Notch as far as North Conway, and also 
northward as far as Beecher Falls in Vermont, through 
Lancaster, Colebrook and kindred towns. 

THE WATER ROUTES. 

The boats of the always popular Fall River Line of 
steamboats still continue to leave New York in the late 
afternoon and by connecting train from Fall River land 
passengers in Boston in season for the forenoon White 
Mountain trains via Intervale Junction, or via Portland as 
desired. Or, the iron boats of the Maine Steamship Com¬ 
pany in a twenty-hour outside run reach Portland in the 
afternoon, from whence it is possible to take the even¬ 
ing train White Mountain-ward over the Maine Central, 
or spend the night in the beautiful city-by-the-sea to con¬ 
tinue the journey next morning. 

THE ROUTES VIA BOSTON AND PORTLAND. 

A great majority no doubt break the journey at Boston, 
travelling from New York via the many fast trains of the 
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, or using 
the comfortable steamer Maryland route from the cities to 
the southard of the metropolis. 

From Boston to the White Mountains are many trains, 
some running via White River Junction and Plymouth 
direct to Fabyans, others via Intervale Junction and the 
Crawford Notch to Fabyans, and still others via Portland, 
Intervale and the Crawford Notch to Fabyans, connecting 
by a network of rail and stage routes with every White 
and Franconia Mountain resorts. 

When is considered the fact that a large part of the 
tourist travel to the Playground of our Country, Maine 



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and New Hampshire, comes to Portland it may be be¬ 
lieved that expedited train-service is maintained between 
The Hub and the Forest City. There are in fact thirty 
and odd passenger trains daily between the two cities, 
many of them three hour expresses, and others doing the 
115 miles in two hours and fifty minutes with but one stop. 

From Portland there are four daily trains for the 
Mountains, at 9.10 a. m., 1.30 p. m., 6.05 and 9.00 p. m. 

THE ROUTES THROUGH VERMONT AND CANADA. 

Of routes northward from New York, up the Hudson 
Valley and across Vermont, there are a great variety, 
whose changing details may be learned from the metropol¬ 
itan newspapers. 

From Saratoga and other points on that line, the usual 
route is across Southern Vermont to Rutland and Bellows 
Falls, and up the Connecticut Valley. 

Points farther north in the Champlain region are con¬ 
nected with the mountains by the St. Johnsbury and Lake 
Champlain Railroad, across Northern Vermont. 

Montreal sends her mountain-tourists down the Cana¬ 
dian Pacific Railway and the Passumpsic Line, directly to 
the heart of the White Hills, in a few hours. The Grand 
Trunk Railway also carries many tourists from Montreal 
and Quebec to Gorham, at the foot of the Presidential 
Range; or, at North Stratford and Groveton Junction, 
connects with the lines on the west side of the mountains. 
The most direct route from Quebec, however, is that of 
the Quebec Central and Maine Central roads, with through 
cars, via Dudswell Junction. 





CHAPTER II. 


THE ROUTE FROM BOSTON TO PORTLAND.—THE EASTERN 
DIVISION, BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD, AND ITS CITIES.— 
THE WESTERN DIVISION, BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD.— 
7HE ROUTE BY SEA.—PORTLAND. 

THE WAY OF THE COAST. 

The Boston and Maine Railroad—Eastern Division (108 
miles).—North Union Station on Cause¬ 
way Street , Boston. 

Rushing out from the crowded North terminal station 
in Boston, the train crosses the broad Charles River, and 
swings in a half-circle several miles long around the 
populous heights of Charlestown, through numerous 
suburban villages, and over a network of other railroads. 
Beyond Chelsea and the lofty Massachusetts Soldiers’ 
Home, the engine settles to work, and flies over the broad 
and sahy expanse of the Lynn marshes, with the hotels of 
Revere Beach and the rocky bluffs of Nahant close at 
hand on the East, and the bold hills and white villages 
of Saugus on the other side. Lynn rises on the edge of 
the marshes, with its seventy-five thousand inhabitants, 
who make many millions pairs of shoes a year, and are 
the chief workmen in the leading industry of Massa¬ 
chusetts. The imposing lines of brick buildings which 
form the central part of the city are flanked by miles of 
wooden houses, bounded at last by High Rock, commemo¬ 
rating Moll Pitcher and the Hutchinsons, and Dungeon 
Rock, where mild-mannered fanatics cut through the solid 
porphyritic ledges for thirty years, in vain quest for con¬ 
cealed treasures. 


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Next comes Swampscott, where Miss Culture delights to 
muse during the summer, in satisfactory juxtaposition with 
the venerated and exceedingly estimable descendants of 
the Puritans. Long Branch is to New York, or Brighton 
to London, very much what this strand is to Boston, al¬ 
though the Massachusetts resort is much the most accessible 
in point of time. A bit of sea appears on the right, and a 
few of the smaller villas and cottages; and the green hills 
hide the mossy old streets of Marblehead, farther out on 
the point. 

Salem is the next stopping-place, and the train pauses 
long enough in the great dark hall of its granite and castel¬ 
lated station to allow a throng of appropriately sombre and 
stately memories to re-visit the mind. The mother-city of 
Massachusetts; granted in 1627 to knights and gentlemen 
of England, and “called Salem from the peace which they 
had and hoped in it;” where the sweet Lady Arabella 
Johnson died; where Roger Williams preached, and 
Winthrop administered justice, and the Bradstreets and 
the Endicotts dwelt; the scene of the terrible withcraft 
persecution in 1692; the hornet’s nest of privateers during 
our wars with Britain; the chief mart, for many years, of 
the American trade with the East Indies; and the birth¬ 
place of Israel Putnam the soldier, Timothy Pickering the 
statesman, Bowditch the navigator, Peirce he mathema¬ 
tician, and Prescott the historian. Here Hawthorne also 
was born, and dwelt for many years; and here, too, lived 
George Peabody, whose honored remains lie in the ceme¬ 
tery near by, while his bequests enrich the city with rare 
collections and institutions. There are thirty-six thousand 
inhabitants here, fluctuating socially around the venerable 
East-India aristocrats, and living a quiet and industrious 
life. It would be no great loss to miss a train here, and 
thereby gain time to see the antiquarian treasures of Plum¬ 
mer Hall, the Old Witch House, the oldest church build¬ 
ing north of Florida, the priceless collections of the Pea¬ 
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Hall, the custom-house where Hawthorne was a clerk, and 
the bright harbor, now empty of Calcutta and Madras 
keels. 

Out through the long dark Salem Tunnel, not devoid of 
osculatory suggestions to Essex maidens, and across North 
River, with the harbor and the sea on the starboard, and 
then the train enters Beverly, famous for shoes, and the 
point of departure for the line of track which winds about 
the rocky hills of Cape Ann, to Gloucester and Pigeon 
Cove. Next come names which were once great, but are 
now eclipsed even by the Denvers and Santa Fes of the 
Far West,—Wenham, which an English tourist called “a 
delicious paradise” about the time that Murillo and Claude 
Lorrain died, and before Voltaire and Sam Johnson were 
born; Hamilton, where the interesting Gail Hamilton 
dwelt; Ipswich, a venerable Puritan hamlet, on ground 
which Capt. John Smith reconnoitred in 1614 ; and Rowley, 
settled two hundred and forty years ago by a nomadic 
church from Rowley in old Yorkshire. 

Over the wide marshes which stretch to the yellow sand- 
dunes of Plum Island the train flies apace, and soon enters 
charming old Newburyport, which Joseph Cook eulogized 
as “the sea-blown city at the mouth of the Merrimac.” No¬ 
where are there lovelier drives, quainter old colonial 
houses, more drowsy streets, more amusing legends, or 
such myriads of venerable trees overarching all the side¬ 
walks. On one side is the lofty and picturesque Chain 
Bridge, with Laurel Castle, where Sir Edward Thornton 
has spent so many seasons; and Hawkswood, where Julia 
Fletcher used to live; on another is the late Ben: Perley 
Poor’s Indian Hill mansion, the Abbottsford of New 
England; and on another was the home of John G. Whit¬ 
tier, the good old poet of the Merrimac Valley, whose 
harp was ever attuned to lofty Christian melodies. New¬ 
buryport has been called home by John Quincy Adams, 
Caleb Cushing, John B. Gough, and Harriet Prescott 
Spofford; it has been visited by Louis Philippe, Talleyrand, 




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Lafayette, Washington, Longfellow, Thoreau, and scores 
of old-time worthies; Garrison was born here, and White- 
field is buried in one of the ancient churches. 

Now the train sweeps across the high bridge over the 
Merrimac, with the ocean on the right, fronted by the 
fading old city, and on the left the swelling outline of Po 
Hill, over Whittier’s home. For twenty miles it traverses 
thick forests and open salt meadows, with ancient hamlets 
on one side and the broken shores of Hampton and Rye, 
dotted with summer-hotels and cottages, on the other. An¬ 
other brick and wood cavern ingulfs the track at Ports¬ 
mouth, the only seaport of New Hampshire, and one of 
the quaintest and most interesting of the seaboard cities. 
Among these shadowy and tranquil streets the Wentworths 
and the Langdons dwelt; and here were born James T. 
Fields, Mrs. Partington Shillaber, and the Bad Boy, 
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, not to mention Commodore Par¬ 
rott of artillery fame, or Bishop Parker, or Sir John 
Wentworth. About eleven thousand people live here, and 
double that number of legends and traditions. 

The vigilant traveller who looks out on the right-hand 
side of the train, as it crosses the bridge over the 
Piscataqua, into Maine, will see the great ship-houses of 
the United-States Navy Yard at Kittery, near the old 
domains and crumbling tombs of the Pepperells and Spar- 
hawks, “The Wentworth” at Newcastle; and perchance the 
steamboat running out toward the Isles of Shoals, which 
lie ten miles out to sea. He will be reminded that here 
was negotiated the treaty of peace between Japan and 
Russia which terminated the long and bloody struggle be¬ 
tween those two nations, a treaty consummated upon the 
soil of the State of Maine but for which New Hampshire 
reaped the honors and the rewards. At Conway Junction 
the train for the White Mountains direct swings off to the 
left; and the Portland train passes on, by the stations of 
Wells and Kennebunk, and then through the twin-cities of 
Biddeford and Saco, between which it crosse the wide 




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Saco River, which we shall see again in its very cradle. A 
half-hour more, across the quiet townships of York County, 
and the many-wheeled procession, Pullman, smoker, coach, 
and truck rattles across Fore River bridge, and enters fair 
Portland, the metropolis of Maine. 

THE WAY OF THE HILLS AND BEACHES. 

The Boston and Maine Railroad—Western Division — 
North Union Station, Boston. 

Also from the portal of the North Union Station at 
Boston the trains of the Western Division emerge to cross 
the Charles River, between Charlestown and Cambridge, 
reaching terra firma at Somerville, near that dark hill on 
which the Ursuline Convent was burned by an angry mob. 
Beyond the Mystic River, the college-crowned heights of 
Medford are seen; and then come the pretty suburban 
villages of Wyoming and Melrose. Now and then bright 
lakes diversify the landscape, and craggy hills, half-tamed, 
roll away on either hand. Wakefield, with its group of 
stately buildings, commemorates the founder of the rattan¬ 
working industry; and Reading, with its rolling sienite 
hills and many shoe-shops, comes next to the north, fol¬ 
lowed by the peaty plains of Wilmington, where the first 
and eldest Baldwin apple-tree is still shown with great 
local pride. 

Andover next appears, the school of the prophets of tne 
old State Church of Massachusetts, where, the venerable 
halls of the Theological Seminary rise on a beautiful hill, 
surrounded by wide grassy areas and long lines of tall 
tres, under which the divinity-students of Congregation¬ 
alism walk as gravely as the robed Roman scholars of the 
De Propaganda Fide do under the evergreen oaks of the 
Villa Borghese. Here Stuart, Phelps, Park, and Woods 
have trained the spiritual athletes of Puritanism to noble, 
service in all lands, from the rationalistic cities of Eastern 
New England and the bovine faith of the hill-towns to the 
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African missions. Ten years ago I stood by a group of 
fine school-buildings at Brechin, in old Scotland, and was 
told that the hill which sloped down thence to the South 
Esk was called Andover Hill, because the schools had been 
built and endowed by two citizens of Andover, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. The same gentlemen (natives of the Scottish 
town) also erected a stately stone library-building for the 
Andover Seminary, and entitled it Brechin Hall. The 
scenery of Andover is very pleasing, along the vales of 
the Shawshine River, and the sunset view from Andover 
Hill is widely famous for its rare beauty. 

The next city to come into view is Lawrence, which 
commemorates the name of Abbott Lawrence, a munificent 
Boston merchant, and long-time Minister to England. 
Lawrence has sixty-three thousand inhabitants, and is the 
most beautiful and enterprising of the manufacturing cities 
of New England, with stately public buildings and hun¬ 
dreds of thousands of humming spindles. Here are the 
enormous Pacific Mills, among the largest in the world, 
and producing enough cheap cloths to drape a small 
continent. 

For half an hour the line follows the bright Merrimac 
River, full of picturesque beauty, and rich in history and 
legend; and then crosses from Bradford to Haverhill, on a 
substantial bridge. Here, practically, is the head of navi¬ 
gation on the Merrimac, eighteen miles from the sea, and 
the houses of the chy are aligned on hills which rise grace¬ 
fully from the stream. John G. Whittier was born here, 
in 1807 , and has written many charming verses about the 
surrounding lakes and the river. Again and again the 
infant settlement of Haverhill was assailed by French 
soldiers and Indian warriors, two centuries ago, and scores 
of its people were slain or carried into fatal captivity; but 
the Saxons held fast, and now no more peaceful and 
happy community exists than the shoe making city of 
Haverhill. 

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Hampshire, and rushes without pause across several farm¬ 
ing towns, to Exeter, the famous academy village, where 
so many illustrious scholars and statesmen have received 
their early education. The next station of importance is 
Dover, the most ancient settlement in the State, and now 
a busy little factory-city at the falls of the Cocheco. From 
this station a train runs across a picturesque farming 
country for an hour and a half, to Alton, cn Lake Winne- 
pesaukee. At Rollinsford, just beyond Dover, the White- 
Mountain train leaves the main line, and at Great Falls 
joins the train for the White Mountains from the Eastern 
Division. 

Not far beyond Dover, the Portland train approaches 
the sea, and runs through Wells, Kennebunk, Biddeford, 
and Saco, near their famous beaches. At Old Orchard the 
line lies between the hotels and the surf. 

A short run from this point, and the train enters 
Portland. 


FROM BOSTON TO PORTLAND. 

The Way of the Sea. 

Towards evening the great white steamships of the Port¬ 
land Line, and at early morning the International steamers, 
leave their piers at Boston, and hold their stately course 
down the harbor, towering high over the yachts and the 
dainty steamboats of the Bay fleet, and winding between 
the fortified islands, until they pass out through Broad 
Sound into the open sea. The route is laid not far off 
shore, along the famous coasts of Essex and past the white 
hotels of a score of beach-resorts,—Swampscot, Marble¬ 
head, Manchester, Magnolia,—until the tall twin light¬ 
houses on Thacher’s Island are rounded, and then the 
wide Gulf of Maine is crossed, well off the New-Hamp- 
shire beaches, and not far from the Isles of Shoals and 
the solitary Boone Island. At last the Cape-Elizabeth 
light is passed, and the picturesque harbor of Portland 
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PORTLAND. 

One of the most beautiful and enterprising of the mari¬ 
time cities of New England is Portland, the metropolis of 
Maine, and the point of departure for Mount Desert, 
Moosehead Lake, and the Rangeley Lakes, as well as for 
the W hite Mountains. It has sixty thousand inhabitants, 
and glories in the possession of many imposing public build¬ 
ings; a city-hall completed in 1912 of Maine granite at a cost 
of one million dollars, containing an auditorium with seating 
capacity for three thousand, equipped with an organ second 
to none in the country costing fifty thousand dollars; a 
post-office of Vermont marble, and a custom-house of 
Maine granite, besides two cathedrals, and a great number 
of churches. The harbor is a deep-watered nook of the 
beautiful Casco Bay, heavily fortified by five modern forts, 
strongly garrisoned and equipped with the best armament 
that Uncle Sam can supply, in modern fortifications costing 
millions. There are besides several of the ancient relics 
of ante-bellum days, which now but serve to add a 
picturesque feature to the smiling summer-populated bay 
of islands. Throughout the summer steamboats run 
through these holiday waters, bearing merry excursionists 
to the park-like islands and their hotels; and swift trains, 
also trolley cars, connect the city with the adjacent 
southern beaches, Scarborough, Old Orchard and the rest. 

On the main street of Portland, where it crosses Mun- 
joy Hill, stands a tall observatory, from which one can 
enjoy a view over the ocean and Casco Bay, and also see 
the grand panorama of the White Mountains, serrating the 
whole north-western horizon. This vision of sublimity is 
enough to allure the summer-voyager even from the breezy 
coast of Portland, and cause him to set his face toward the 
region of the North-west Wind, Keewaydin. 




CHAPTER III. 


THE ROUTE FROM PORTLAND TO THE WHITE MOUNTAINS — 
SEBAGO LAKE.—FRYEBURG.—THE EASTERN DIVISION, BOSTON 
MAINE RAILROAD, TO NORTH CONWAY. 

FROM PORTLAND TO THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. 

By the Maine Central Railroad. 

There was something heroic in the temper of the men 
who planned the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad, re¬ 
solving that the fair little Forest City should be joined to 
the great Western lakes by bands of steel, although two 
great mountain-ranges and many formidable rivers lay 
between. From their resolution this long line has come 
into existence, breaking down all natural obstacles, and 
sparing no outlay of treasure to broaden the famous com¬ 
mercial route. Incidentally (though mainly, for our pur¬ 
pose) the line developed new areas of aesthetic pleasure, 
and made easy the way for thousands of pilgrims of senti¬ 
ment. So that one can now pass from Portland to the 
very gate and threshold of the White Mountains in three 
brief hours, and in as much more time can traverse their 
wonderful gorges, and emerge in the Connecticut Valley. 
Of all the railroads which approach the mountains, this is 
the only one which carries them by storm, and penetrates 
their deepest recesses, and with the invincible power and 
calm security of modern scientific engineering. This route 
was built by the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad Com¬ 
pany, and operated by them with success until the year 
1888, when it became a part of the great system of the 
Maine Cetnral Railroad, extending from the Connecticut 
Valley eastward to the frontiers of Canada. The in- 
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domitable engineer who drove the line through the moun¬ 
tains was the late John F. Anderson. 

It is but little more than half an hour, through quiet old 
farming towns, and by several white hamlets, until the 
train reaches the shore of Sebago Lake, the beautiful sheet 
of water which lies between the highlands and the plains, 
and mirrors the distant peaks in its clear and translucent 
tide. One of the fairest episodes of the journey is that in 
which the train speeds along the shores of Sebago, by 
glittering sandy beaches and embowered points, with the 
clear expanse of the waters stretching far away beyond. 
Then ensues a short run over the dreary watershed, and 
the line descends into the valley by Steep Falls, and meets 
the bright stream of the Saco, the mountain-born river. 
Shaggy highlands are seen on either side, as, from time 
to time, there occur breaks in the woods; and the cluster¬ 
ing villages of the plains are succeeded by half-wild forest- 
hamlets. Beyond West Baldwin, in looking across the 
river, one may see the stately old Wadsworth mansion, 
where the poet Longfellow spent many a happy vacation 
in the home of his grandfather; and a little way beyond 
are the Great Falls of the Saco, which may be seen from 
the train, as they dash in white masses of foam over the 
high black ledges. Soon the rugged ridge of Mount Cutler 
is rounded, and the pretty village of Hiram Bridge ap¬ 
pears, in the glen to the right of the track. 

Fryeburg hides its beauties behind deep groves, as the 
train draws up to the station, and the uninstructed 
traveller would hardly imagine the tranquil delights of 
this Queen of the Saco Valley, with its vast areas of 
richest meadows, its sweetly sinuous river, and its deeply 
shaded streets, bordered by dignified old colonial houses. 
There are very pleasant drives throughout all this region, 
by which one may reach Mount Pleasant, the eastern 
vidette of the White Mountains; or enjoy the diversified 
charms of the Kezar Ponds; or cross the emerald inter¬ 
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mountains. Close to the village is Jockey Cap, a huge 
pile of granite from which the western peaks are seen in 
panoramic line; and just beyond is Lovewell’s Pond, com¬ 
memorating the valiant captain who led thirty-four 
Massachusetts rangers to this shore, in 3 725, and fought 
with the Pequawket Indians here all day long, until Love- 
well and his chaplain and nearly all his men were killed 
or wounded. Soon afterwards the Indians abandoned 
their village, and Fryeburg was founded. Daniel Webster 
taught the village academy for awhile; and Gov. Lincoln, 
while living here, wrote a long semi-didactic poem, “The 
Village.” 

The summit of Stark’s Hill, close to Fryeburg, has now 
been cleared, and affords a magnificent view of the 
mountains and the great Saco Plain. The new summer- 
resort of Highland Park, several miles out, is now attract¬ 
ing some attention; and the entire Fryeburg region gains 
more and more favor each season. 

As the train advances from Fryeburg, and swings from 
curve to curve over the Saco meadows, the prospect varies 
continually, and the house-crowned cone of Kearsarge, the 
long red ledges of Moat Mountain, and the splendid white 
crest of Chocorua, rush into view. At last a passage opens 
ahead, between the bristling Green Hills and Moat Moun¬ 
tain, and the line runs through a dreary bit of woodland, 
to the station at North Conway. 

LAKE SEBAGO. 

As the train goes, by the way of the Maine Central Rail¬ 
road, Sebago is seventeen miles from Portland, and forty- 
three miles from North Conway. The steamboat departs 
from the railroad-station, and makes the tour of all the 
lakes, and then returns, the distance up and back being 
sixty-eight miles. 

Sebago is twelve miles long and nine miles wide, with a 
greatest depth of four hundred feet, and waters purer 
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are low, with graceful ridges rising beyond, and the White- 
Mountain chain frequently appearing in the blue distance; 
while but a few islands break the broad expanse of water. 
On the east shore is Windham, settled by men of Marble¬ 
head, and the birthplace of John A. Andrew; and Ray¬ 
mond, where Nathaniel Hawthorne spent some of his 
earlier years, often rowing out on the lake, while the 
solemn stillness and shadowy gloom of the forests deep¬ 
ened the sombre spirit which Puritan Salem had given 
him. 

At the head of Sebago, after an hour’s sail, the steamer 
runs between brushwood jetties, and enters the Songo 
River, a quaintly errant stream which flows six miles to 
pass between points two and a half miles apart, often so 
near the banks that the boughs brush the decks. Long¬ 
fellow himself has used the pen which honored the Rhine 
and the Arno to write laughing verses about this corkscrew 
river. After ascending to the level of the upper lakes, 
by a canal-lock, the vessel sweeps out into the Bay of 
Naples, near the hamlet of Naples. Dudley Warner says 
that all harbors are likened to the Neapolitan Bay, “and 
I’m sure the passing traveller can stand it if the Bay of 
Naples can.” Now in ancient times this sheet of water 
was called Brandy Pond, and when Neal Dow banished 
alcoholic spirits from the State, the people hereabouts took 
this as their best approach to the Parthenopian Gulf, and 
named it the Bay of Naples. This classic water is left by 
passing through a draw-bridge, and the gallant bark steams 
boldly out on Long Pond, an uncivilized Yankee Winder- 
mere thirteen miles long and not more than half a league 
wide. One may go on to the head, at Harrison; or stop 
at North Bridgton, a pretty lakeside hamlet near the 
mountain-glen where Artemus Ward was born; or pause 
midway at Bridgton Landing, and ride a mile to the brisk 
highland village of Bridgton, with its beautiful drives and 
lakes, its woollen-mills and canning-factories. 

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by a stage line, and seven miles from Fryeburg. It con¬ 
sists of a long wall of wooded heights about two thousand 
feet high, with a road leading to the top of one of the 
middle peaks, up a long and shallow ravine. A hotel 
crowns the summit but it has not been opened for several 
seasons. The view is very beautiful and extensive, either 
on the west, where the ancient and paradisiac plains of 
Pequawket, are overlooked by Chocorua, Osceola, Moat, 
Kiarsarge, and the lofty Presidential Range; or on the 
southeast, where Portland’s spires appear over Sebago’s 
broad bosom. A neat narrow-gauge railroad runs from 
Bridgton Junction, on the Maine Central Railroad, to 
Bridgton, sixteen miles distant, giving an easy mode of 
access to the region of Mount Pleasant and the towns 
beyond. 

THE BOSTON & MAINE R. R. ROUTE TO NORTH CONWAY. 

There is a point called Conway Junction, sixty-seven 
miles from Boston, where a branch line diverges from the 
main stem of the Eastern Division of the Boston and 
Maine Railroad, and starts up the valley of the Salmon- 
Falls River, at Great Falls connecting with the train from 
the Western Division of the same road. Beyond the hum¬ 
ming and rumbling mills at Salmon Falls and Great Falls, 
the train swings along cheerily over the Norway plains, 
and pauses at Rochester, a dull and prosperous town of 
six thousand inhabitants, with broad and regular streets, 
and spacious ecclesiastical and educational buildings. The 
next station is Milton, near some picturesque ponds and 
hill-scenery; followed by Union about which, I believe, 
there is nothing interesting. At Wolfeborough Junction the 
track for Wolfeborough may be seen diverging to the left, 
to reach the Winnepesaukee shores in eleven miles. After 
this come numerous stations in the indefinitely prolonged 
town of Wakefield, whose beautiful lakes, crystal-clear and 
hill-guarded, suffice to draw hither several hundred city- 
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another town of generous distances and many stations, 
one of which is at the capital of Carroll County; and an¬ 
other stands at the road which leads to the famous and 
never-visited Green Mountain in Effiingham, near the 
Maine frontier. The Ossipee Mountains, low and woody, 
now crowd the track; and after passing them by, and 
crossing the Bearcamp River, the train slows up at West 
Ossipee. This smallest of the highland hamlets was for 
many years known as the favorite mountain-resort of John 
G. Whittier, several of whose poems are connected with 
this valley. There are beautiful views, from West 
Ossipee, of the great peaks of Chocorua, Passaconaway, 
Paugus, Whiteface, and Sandwich Dome, rising across the 
level plains of Tamworth as the Alban Mountains rise 
over the Roman Campagna, and richly spiritualized at 
each clear sunset. There are pleasant drives from West 
Ossipee, the easiest of which is one of four miles to 
Ossipee Lake, a large oval sheet of transparent water sur¬ 
rounded by gloomy heaths, and stocked with divers fish. 
On the shore are the vestiges of an ancient fort, built 
by Capt. Lovewell during his ill-fated foray in 1725, and 
afterwards sadly abandoned. Harriet Martineau likened 
Ossipee Lake to the wildest parts of Norwa}% whereat the 
land of the Northmen may not feel unduly proud. About 
seven miles north of West Ossipee, by a fair, level road 
which traverses the venerable hamlet of Tamworth Iron- 
Works (whose iron-works have not been run since before 
the War of 1812), is Chocorua Lake, a lovely mountain- 
tarn at the foot of Mount Chocorua, a mile long, and 
domineered over by the customary hotel. Chocorua is 
ascended by a path which leaves Hammond’s farm-road 
three miles from the Lake House, and rises over a splendid 
line of rocky ridges and spires to the apex of the gallant 
peak, 3,540 feet above the sea. From West Ossipee, also, 
stages run daily through South Tamworth and Moulton- 
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on Lake Winnepesaukee, giving a series of brilliant views 
of mountain-scenery. 

Beyond this interesting West Ossipee the train rapidly 
approaches Chocorua, and presently runs for a long dis- 
ance on the shore of that pretty sheet of water, with 
curving sandy beaches, and a lone islet, whose platitudinous 
modern name of Silver Lake is hardly better than the 
homely old Six-Mile Pond which it supplanted. Certain 
it is that the grandest view of Chocorua is obtained from 
the eastern shore of this spacious lake. 

Beyond Madison the line is elbowed off to the eastward 
by the gloomy and irredeemable foot-hills of Chocorua, 
until it crosses the Swift River, and enters the famous 
meadows of Conway, along which it finds an easy course 
up to North Conway. 

THE BRIDGTON AND SACO-RIVER RAILROAD 

Is a tidy route, with small but very comfortable cars, and 
a two-foot gauge, connecting with the picturesque Maine 
Central line at Bridgton Junction, and running sixteen 
miles north-east to Bridgton, North Bridgton, Harrison 
and Waterford. The route leads through a wild and 
rugged country, with frequent views of the mountains on 
either side, and of the clear waters of Barker Lake and 
Hancock Lake. It was opened in 1883. 




CHAPTER IV. 


NORTH CONWAY AND ITS ATTRACTIONS.—JACKSON FALLS. 

NORTH CONWAY. 

A village of a thousand or more inhabitants, four 
churches, an academy, and three or four broad and rural 
streets, hardly pleasing the visitor at first glance, and yet 
showing such groups and lines of hotels that it is manifest 
that thousands of tourists come hither every season,—such 
is North Conway in its material aspect. It stands on a 
terrace in the great alcove which the Saco Valley makes in 
the long mountain-wall, like some rather ugly piece of 
ware placed on the shelf of a bric-a-brac cabinet, and care¬ 
fully preserved for the sake of its happy associations. Let 
us confess in the beginning, that the inhabitants lack 
metropolitan conveniences (except their valuable new 
water-works) and taxes, and that the sunniest summer 
days are far from chilly, and then let us add, that, never¬ 
theless, no rural resort in New England has such devoted 
partisans and ardent admirers, no village in the mountain 
region has refreshed and renewed so many thousands of 
weary citizens. 

Bethlehem has cooler air; Jefferson, grander views; the 
Fabyan plateau, wilder surroundings; and Newbury, fairer 
meadows; yet somehow the fascination which North Con¬ 
way exerts surpasses that of any other, and is peculiar to 
this locality. For three-quarters of a century the tide of 
summer-travel has been swelling, until it requires two first- 
class railroads for its accommodation, and many hotels of 
various classes for harbors of repose. There are those 
who have visited this village every season for a quarter 

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of a century, and who return with contrition after each 
infidelity of a detour to Bethel, or Campton, or even 
Bethlehem. How can we better account for the peculiar 
charm of the place than in saying that there is in its land¬ 
scapes more of staying power, more of the indelible, than 
is found elsewhere, and that scenes so lovely, remembered 
so faithfully, cannot lose their attraction? 

What, then, are the elements of this landscape, at once 
so varied and so charming,—this panorama, whose mere 
memory draws thousands of visitors every year from 
distant cities of the Republic ? Imprimis, then, a broad 
shelf, the former terrace of an ancient lake, perhaps, but 
now occupied by many-windowed hotels and great build¬ 
ings of the genus which the Swiss happily call pensions, 
but which we grimly confuse with urban abominations, 
under the name of boarding-houses; shops, here and there, 
for the sale of country supplies and exotic luxuries; 
churches, including the usual little ultra-Gothic Episcopal 
chapel which appears at every conspicuous watering-place; 
and railroad-stations, one of which looks Byzantine enough 
for a Russian guard-house, or a dome of the Kremlin. 
This populous shelf projects from the sides of the Green 
Hills,—a range of shaggy and confused mountlets which 
run almost to the Maine borders, and show occasional bare 
crests, bearing queer rustic names, and accessible by 
Arcadian woodland paths. At their end. and proudly 
conspicuous from the village, is the tall dark pyramid of 
Mount Kiarsarge, towering very nobly into the blue sky, 
and forming an infinite variety of combinations with the 
clouds, the mist, and the lights of morning and of sunset 
On the opposite side is that which was for many decades 
the distinctive charm of North Conway,—the broad, level, 
fertile meadow of the Saco, dotted with exquisite elms, and 
crossed by a waving band of groves, under which the 
bright Saco River dashes and ripples. In a few years 
more, when the Vandalic railroad embankments are 
covered with swaying grass up to the tracks, this beauty 




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shall perchance return. Beyond the emerald plain rises 
the chief feature of the Conwegian landscape,—the long, 
massive, serrated ridge of Moat Mountain, which was 
burnt over in the year of he Crimean War, and still re¬ 
flects the sunlight from vast bare ledges of reddish rock. 
Running from the glens of Bartlett to the Swift River, 
near Chocorua, this Titanic rampart enwalls the Conway 
vale like the mountains about the Happy Valley of Rasselas, 
or, as some one has said, like the sentry-ground of angelic 
guards, protecting the peaceful plains below. But Kiarsarge 
on one side, Moat on the other, grand as they are, are but 
the frame-work for a still more magnificent picture, where 
the northern sky is filled with the great peaks of the Presi¬ 
dential Range, mounting upward to the commanding crest 
of Mount Washington, and clothed upon with the idealizing 
beauty “of distance and of dream.” Therewith infinite 
combinations may be formed, as they are seen through the 
arches of the Cathedral Woods, or over the blown grass 
of the intervales, or under the swaying elm-branches, or 
above the pebbly bed of the Saco or even beside the satin 
parasol of Miss Irene Macgillicuddy. 

Another peculiar charm of North Conway is found in the 
great variety of excursions in the vicinity, whether by road, 
by railroad, or by the paths which thread the neighboring 
forests. All summer long merry parties are bowling over 
the roads to Fryeburg, Walker’s Pond, Conway, Kiarsarge 
Village, Jackson, and Bartlett, professedly in search of 
lakes, ledges, and waterfalls, yet by no means forgetting 
social joys, of varying intensities. Nor do the livery horses 
have opportunity to forget the Ridge Road, the Dundee 
Road, or the famous Thorn-Hill drive,—excursions which 
reveal new combinations of mountains and glens. But the 
favorite drive leads across the intervals, to the singular 
cliffs at the foot of Moat Mountain, the White-Horse and 
Cathedral Ledges, and to Echo Lake. The famous White- 
Mountain Mineral Spring is a short drive to the south¬ 
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Bowlder. The Kearsarge House is the chief hotel at 
North Conway proper, with others of equal charm, in the 
adjacent Kearsarge Village, and at Intervale. 

They who “seek adventure in the salvage woode” may 
find many paths tempting their willing feet, from the half- 
hour’s stroll to Artist’s Falls,—that tiny forest-gem,—and 
the neighboring groves which shelter the granite-curbed 
waters of the Forest-Glen Mineral Spring, to the arduous 
journey to Province Pond, surrounded by leagues of un¬ 
broken wilderness. Down the odorous aisles of Cathedral 
Woods Doris and Phyllis ramble for hours, apparently in 
such seclusion as Eden once knew, yet so bounded by high¬ 
ways and railroads that they cannot lose themselves. 

The mountain-climber may clamber—or even ride—up 
the ascending league of bridle-path which conducts to the 
nobly uplifted granite crown of Mount Kiarsarge and 
thence look out on a prospect which stirred the hearts of 
Starr King and Theodore Parker, and many thousand 
lesser men and women. The vale of Conway, the remote 
peaks of Carrigain, Moosilauke, and Lafayette, the ravine- 
torn Presidential Range, the lowlands of Maine, and the 
open sea by Portland, all come into the field of vision, with 
myriads of other recognizable points, peaks, villages, and 
lakes, diversifying the vast landscape. 

Or if a wilder and more remote excursion is desired, 
there is a new path which leads from the beautiful water- 
scenery of Diana’s Baths up to the crest of Moat Moun¬ 
tain, and from thence along the great ridge, giving sweet 
and charming prospects over the valley below and for 
many a league over the apparent levels of Western Maine. 
The highest peak is six and a half miles from the Kear¬ 
sarge House, half of which is by carriage-road, and of the 
rest half is nearly level, and the remainder ascending. 
There is also a short and steep path leading from the 
further shore of Echo Lake to the crest of the White- 
Horse Ledge,—a unique excursion, and one as yet rarely 
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Still another trip of this kind leads to the top of Middle 
Mountain, by a pleasant and well-marked path, one and 
three-fourths miles long, from the Artist’s Falls House. 
Thence we may see the great northern peaks, the remote 
crest of Lafayette, Fryeburg village, and Sebago Lake, and 
the superb red spire of Chocorua. 

How shall we pause to describe, at three lines to each, 
the beauties of Buttermilk Hollow, the sequestered glens 
of Sligo and Jericho, the favorite rambles on the intervales, 
the fascinating view from Sunset Hill—near the site of 
McMillan’s ancient hostelry—the villas beyond the Cathe¬ 
dral Woods, the quiet beauty of the scenery about the great 
Intervale House, or the cool hill-tops of Kiarsarge Village, 
with their group of quiet boarding-houses ? Southward the 
old stage-road runs, in five miles, to Conway,—the ancient 
Chatauque, or Chateaugay,—where the spacious Conway 
House attests the popular favor which has long attended 
this quiet and attractive hamlet. Northward the road 
traverses the Intervale suburb, really the most charming 
part of North Conway, and advances, in about four miles, 
to Lower Bartlett, where a group of summer-houses 
clusters about the western base of Mount Kearsarge. At 
Intervale Station, two miles above North Conway and 
directly upon the border of Cathedral Woods, is a group 
of the finest villas in the mountain-region, surrounding a 
colony of hotels. Here is the Intervale House, one of the 
largest and best appointed of White Mountain hostelries. 
Its environment holds delightful views over meadow and 
mountain. 

Another advantage which North Conway justly claims 
is found in its accessibility from the great cities of the 
coast, and in the ease with which mountain-excursions in 
all direction may be made, by the aid of its railroads. 
There are but few points in the White Hills that may not 
be reached in a single day’s trip from North Conway, by 
going up on the morning trains, and dining out, it may 
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ton, or at Jackson. Great numbers of tourists go 
through the Notch to the Crawford and Fabyan Houses, 
and return on the afternoon trains. So that North Con¬ 
way, although geographically at one side, is made a central 
point in the White Hills by virtue of its perfect system of 
communications. 


JACKSON FALLS. 

About nine miles from North Conway, and less than 
four miles from the line of the Maine Central Railroad at 
Glen Station, is a beautiful and secluded glen, crossed by 
the Pinkham-Notch road and the sparkling Ellis River, 
and enwalled on all sides by dark-green mountains and 
rocky-faced peaks. Near its centre is a small cluster of 
farm-houses, three spacious boarding-houses, a country 
store, and a dignified little rural church. This hamlet dates 
back more than a hundred years, and bears the modest 
name of Jackson City. In summer-time, indeed, the title 
is not so far wrong, for then the population is largely 
augmented, and includes bishops, professors, bankers, and 
all the urban species, with even a larger representation of 
the ladies of those grades. There is excellent trout-fishing 
in the neighboring brooks, to beguile paterfamilias into the 
clothes-wrecking brook-side adventures of a truant school¬ 
boy; and the edict of London against croquet has not yet 
been promulgated on these lawns. Between the two chief 
boarding-houses, the Ellis River flows rapidly; and from 
its embowered bridge, one may see the Jackson Falls, a 
few rods above, and a very pleasing spectacle in times of 
high water. Farther up the stream are many bits of rare 
landscape beauty, which are found out every season by the 
distinguished artists who visit and sketch in this vicinity. 
Down stream, about a mile and a half from the hamlet, 
are the Goodrich Falls, which were grand enough to repay 
a long journey, before the saw-mills impaired their beauty. 
The Winniwetaj Falls are about three miles from Jackson, 
and are sufficiently seldom visited. 





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The favorite points of attack for the alpestrians who 
visit this lovely glen are the far-viewing Thorn Mountain, 
whose summit is reached by a farm-road two and a half 
miles long and a path half a mile long; the twin domes of 
Double-Head, about four miles distant on the Dundee 
road; the massive Iron Mountain, largely composed of 
iron-ore, and a little over three miles distant; and the vast 
terraces of Giant’s Stairs, about five miles away, and on 
the main range. The drives lead to the Cook farm, tfae 
Fernald farm, Prospect farm, and other famous points 
which look into the ravines of Mount Washington; and 
from the head of the valley there is a good Appalachian 
path into the wild desolation and boulder-strewn chaos of 
the Carter Notch. 

The scenery of the Ellis glen is sweet and pastoral, and 
the view of Moat Mountain from the village is famous for 
its delicate and ethereal beauty. The glen is seven hun¬ 
dred and fifty-nine feet above the sea, and is seldom chilly 
in summer. Every year sees a larger constituency of 
visitors at this ideal mountain-hamlet; and Jackson is 
rapidly attaining a deserved prominence among the favorite 
resorts of the White Hills. 

Gray’s Inn, recently erected on the site of the original 
hotel, beautifully situated, elegant in all its appointments, is 
Jackson’s most imposing hotel structure. The beautiful 
Wentworth Hall, with its quaint Queen-Anne cottages, is 
presided over by Gen. M. C. Wentworth. Just across the 
rushing river is the famous old Jackson-Falls House 
(Trickey’s), greatly renovated and enlarged in 1886. The 
other hotels are the handsome new Iron-Mountain House 
(Meserve’s) and the Glen-Ellis House, together with sev¬ 
eral summer boarding-houses. 



CHAPTER V. 


THE WHITE-MOUNTAIN NOTCH.—THE MAINE CENTRAL RAIL¬ 
ROAD, FROM NORTH CONWAY TO FABYANS.—THE CRAW¬ 
FORD HOUSE.—THE FABYAN HOUSE.—THE TWIN-MOUNTAIN 
HOUSE. 

FROM NORTH CONWAY THROUGH THE NOTCH. 

In all Eastern America there is no other episode of rail¬ 
road traveling comparable for grandeur with the famous 
route of the Maine Central line through the White- 
Mountain Notch. The Hoosac-Tunnel route through the 
Berkshire Hills, the Pennsylvania Railroad between Al¬ 
toona and Cresson Springs, and the Baltimore and Ohio 
Line along the Cheat-River mountains, exhibit passages 
of great landscape beauty and grandeur; but neither of 
them can compare with the sustained and increasing in¬ 
terest of this route, whose conception was one of the most 
daring thoughts which ever entered the mind of man. 
The mountain-spirits smiled grimly at the bright little 
theodolites which were borne breathlessly up towards their 
fastnesses ; but when the axe, the pick, and the powder- 
barrel followed, and vast lanes were opened through the 
forests and cliffs, and the steam-song shrilled along the 
ridges, the gnomes fled away, and allowed their ancient 
home to become a suburb of Portland. At any rate, the 
bears did, for they, abandoned the Notch en masse, and 
lay down with fand outside of) the sheep of the more 
distant and less noisy townships. 

As the train swings out from the North Conway station 
all is anticipation on the part of its passengers. Like the 
old. old story, the Notch ride will always bear repeating. 

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Those who have seen the display are as eager as strangers. 
It is a ride of twenty-seven miles, or not far from an hour 
and a half, up to the Crawford House; and the Duchess 
of Brookline and Lady Murray-Hill settle themselves in 
becoming attitudes, while the American sovereigns of the 
male line unfold fresh newspapers and take out their cigar- 
cases. The wiser travellers, those who have been fore¬ 
warned by good guide-books, find seats on the right-hand 
side of the cars, and bide their time. 

The processional through the Cathedral Woods is ca- 
denced by the reverberations from the solemn depths of 
the forest; and the incense which rolls away among the 
groined arches of the pines is evolved from no Arabian 
spices, but from the black carbon of Pennsylvania. In a 
few minutes the pretty summer-hamlet at the Intervale is 
passed, and the wide green meadows open away on the left, 
overhung by tall cliffs, and garlanded with deep-toned 
groves. Ever and anon new peaks come into view, now 
the giants which tower over Jackson, and now the track¬ 
less and formidable ridges beyond Bartlett. The stream 
which flows by the track is the Ellis River, which since 
sunrise has descended from the snow-banks in Tucker- 
man’s Ravine, and now is hurrying away toward Old 
Orchard Beach. 

Glen Station is soon reached, with its platform bor¬ 
dered by Jackson stages, whose horses still retain 
vivid memories of Spruce Hill, and the long slopes of 
the Pinkham Notch. The lovely mountain-hamlet of Jack- 
son is about three miles away, and the site of the once 
famous Glen House is twelve miles further, through the 
high Pinkhapi Notch. As the train rushes onward, the 
valley grows narrower and more wild, with the rounding 
dome of Iron Mountain rising on the right, and a glimpse 
of the vast treads of Giant’s Stairs. On the other side are 
the ponderous mountain-ranges which enwall the glen of 
Albany, and are traversed only by bears and lumbermen. 

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narrow defile through which the train penetrates the, 
mighty barrier of the mountains. Here the Waltonian 
disciples come, to pursue trout in Sawyer’s River and the 
Saco, and in the numerous clear streamlets and forest- 
bound ponds which abound in the vicinity. This is also 
the strategic point from which attacks are made on the 
lonely Mount Carrigain, the great watch-tower of the 
wilderness, whose dark peak is visible from the station- 
platform, over the track ahead. The venerable writer of 
these lines went to the top of Carrigam, several years ago, 
at the cost of three days’ marching through pathless woods, 
and three nights of sleeping under the stars; but now the 
climber can reach the foot of the mountain by a new 
railroad, and get to the top by an Appalachian path. So 
that Carrigain is no longer the Ultima Thule of our alpine 
clubs, and sharp eyes may find on the path hair-pins, as 
well as beer-bottles. 

Beyond Upper Bartlett the laboring train soon begins to 
climb the ridges of Duck-Pond Mountain, wheeling from 
westward to northward, and unfolding new groups of 
highland peaks. After Sawyer’s River is crossed, and 
the new lumber-railroad is thrown off, on the left, our 
line crosses Nancy’s Brook, with its pretty cascades and 
flume, flowing down that solemn mountain which a learned 
Latinist of Harvard once christened Mount Amoris-gc!u, 
“the Frost of Love.” Nancy’s story is familiar to all New- 
Englanders, from its manifold narrations, in every book 
in the literature of the hills, from the quaint old histories 
of Crawford and Willey, and the Ruskinian periods of 
Starr King, down to the most arid and venal of the Cad- 
mian brood of paper-covered guide-books; yet we must 
tell it once more, for the benefit of the tourist from 
Ilfracombe or Kalamazoo. Well-nigh a century, then, has 
passed since poor Nancy was betrothed to a farmer of 
Jefferson, a base fellow indeed, who deserted her on the 
eve of their journey to be married, and hastened away 
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winter-storm set in; but the dauntless girl started after 
her runaway lover, hoping to find him encamped in the 
Notch. There was not even a road, and she struggled on 
in the darkness and the snow, fording the rushing streams, 
and bruised by the rocks, until at last the fiery heart was 
chilled into peace by the pitiless gale, and she sank down 
by the side of the brook, where her body was found not 
long afterward, encrusted with snow, and with her head 
resting on her staff. Devotion, betrayal, heroism, death— 
it needs but the pen of a Hawthorne or a Scott to make 
these lean outlines throb with bewitching life. The adula¬ 
tory ink which treats of polite officials and gentlemanly 
landlords flows far too feebly to effect such transfigura¬ 
tions. 

Now the train enters the Crawford Glen, by the many- 
gabel mansion where dwelt Dr. Bemis, whose earlier life 
was spent in Boston, and his later decades in this grand 
valley, which he owned and enjoyed until his death in 
1882. Just beyond is the site of the ancient Mount-Craw- 
ford House, where Abel Crawford opened his forest- 
tavern, eighty years ago, and where he dwelt until he was 
eighty-five years old, the patriarch of the mountains, the 
hearty, happy pioneer of hundreds of Bonifaces of all 
moods. Not even Tyndall nor Whymper could describe 
this valley so delightfully as did old Timothy Dwight, the 
President of Yale College, nearly a hundred years since, 
in his quaint scholastic language: “Here the mountains 
assumed the form of an immense ampitheatre; elliptical 
in its figure; from twelve to fifteen miles in length; from 
two to four in breadth; and crowned with summits of 
vast height and amazing grandeur.” 

From this point lead the faint and almost-forgotten trails 
which ascend Mount Crawford and Mount Resolution, the 
vast peaks which tower on the farther side of the Glen, 
tempting the advance of the adventurous explorer. 

From Bemis Station the train climbs upward on a grade 
of one foot in forty-six, rushing through wilder wilder- 




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nesses, and clinging to the sides of the great cliffs. The 
music of the Arethusa Falls may almost be heard, as its 
stream is crossed, a mile below; and then the lofty Frank¬ 
enstein Cliff appears ahead. Just before the trestle is 
reached, the vigilant traveller who looks forward on the 
right will get one of the grandest possible views of Mount 
Washington, up the long valley of Dry River, with the 
great peak nobly and suitably enframed between its high 
southern spurs. This prospect has long been famed for its 
sublimity, and the only regret is that one cannot have 
more time to enjoy it. While running on to the trestle, 
the great cliffs above should be observed, and also the 
profound depths of the Saco Valley, sweeping away on the 
right. The deep Frankenstein Gulf is crossed on a won¬ 
derful trsetle of iron, five hundred feet long and eighty 
feet high, whereat all vigilant travellers must gaze, by 
craning out of the car-windows. Still the track rises, per¬ 
ceptibly, and the trees in the Saco Valley are so far below 
that their tops present the semblance of a green carpet. 
Across this vast bowl are famous mountains,—Crawford, 
with its pointed reddish peak; the Giant’s Stairs, showing 
forth their etymology; Mount Willey, a very noble needle 
of rock, rising sharply from the woods; and many another 
picturesque summit. As the train crosses the Brook 
Kedron, a charming little picture of forest and mountain- 
stream is presented, contrasting with the broader scenes 
beyond. Presently the green carpet of the valley is broken 
by the white Willey House, far below, and the true Notch 
is entered, with Mount Willard’s purple cliffs in front, and 
the avalanche-torn sides of Mount Webster on the right. 
It must be remembered that the track is not straight, but 
winds in and out around the sides of the ridges, giving 
prospective and retrospective views in rapid succession, 
and with continual change. The Willey-Brook Bridge is 
one of the marvels of this route, and spans a gorge far 
deeper and wider than even the Frankenstein Gulf. The 
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the dark crevice of the Devil’s Den overhead; and on the 
right opens a view of the great valley towards the Willey 
House, resembling in kind (although less extensive) the 
famous prospect from Mount Willard’s summit. Below, 
in the valley, the dark still waters of the Dismal Pool are 
seen, surrounded with huge rocks and dense thickets. 
Narrower and narrower grows the valley, and its floor 
seems ascending to meet the track, until at last the Gate 
of the Notch is reached, and the Great Cut, where the rail¬ 
road splits into the mountain, just beyond the glittering 
splendors of the Flume and Silver Cascades, and the train 
emerges upon the pleateu by the Crawford House. 

The train runs swiftly from the Crawford House to the 
Fabyan House, a distance of four miles, on a down grade 
of eighty feet to the mile, following a tributary of the 
Ammonoosuc. There are several impressive views of the 
White Mountains from the latter part of this ride, the tall 
gray peaks rising high over the intermediate and pathless 
forests. 

Between Crawfords and Fabyans is the new Bretton 
Woods station, whence carriages from the Mt. Pleasant 
and the Mount Washington hotels convey travellers to 
those famous hostelries. 

THE CRAWFORD HOUSE. 

There is no other public house so near the Notch as the 
Crawford House. This is a good hotel of the first class, 
1,900 feet above the sea, with broad and almost inter¬ 
minable piazzas, cool and airy halls, post-office, telegraph- 
office, garage, livery-stable, bowling-alley, electrics; en¬ 
virons which the landscape-gardener has just approved; 
and a dining-room where even Epicurus or Uncle Sam 
Ward need not complain. 

Near the front of the house is the pretty little Saco 
Lake, the cradle of the Saco River, and so far widened 
and deepened by art as to give a reason for being for the 
boats which float on its crystal tide. The rugged forest 




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between the lake and the overhanging mountain has been 
combed and brushed and perfumed, and otherwise adorned 
for a summer pleasaunce, so that it has won the happily 
suggestive name of Idlewild. 

Mount Willard is the chief feature of this neighborhood, 
and, although a little mountain, only 670 feet higher than 
the hotel, has won the enthusiastic praises of three such 
varying types of men as Bayard Taylor, Starr King, and 
Anthony Trollope. You may ride to its top, on an excellent 
carriage-road, and look from the edge of the purple cliffs 
down into the vast concavity of the Notch, filled with un¬ 
broken forests curving in graceful lines to the river, and 
terminated by the sharp spire of Chocorua. In the other 
direction is Mount Washington, in the centre of the Presi¬ 
dential Peaks. Probably Trollope was not far wrong, 
when he said that nothing in all the classic Rhineland 
equalled the view from this summit, down the Notch. 

People who like flumes can be highly gratified on Mount 
Willard, for it sustains the Butterwort Flume (which I 
don’t know much about) and the Hitchcock Flume, easily 
reached by a path leaving the road a quarter of a mile be¬ 
low the summit. It is a remarkable canon betwixt walls 
of rock, 350 feet long, thirty to sixty feet deep, and in 
some places not more than six feet wide. 

Looking southward from the Crawford, one sees the 
Gate of the Notch, with the adjacent slopes of Mounts 
Clinton and Willard falling away toward it like magnified 
ramparts, and cut off with sharp precision so that there 
might be space for the infant river to pass through. The 
Tenth New-Hampshire Turnpike and the Portland and 
Ogdensburg Railroad were later thoughts, and had to 
carve their own ways. On the eastern side is the great 
rock of Elephant’s Head, from whose top such a pleasing 
view is gained, howbeit the way hither is a path only ten 
minutes long.from the hotel. 

Beecher’s Cascades commemorate the Brooklyn Boan¬ 
erges, who was very quickly and unceremoniously im- 



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mersed in one of their basins, by an unlucky slip on its 
margin. Half a mile leads to their head, crossing the rail¬ 
road alongside the hotel, and soon reaching the dainty 
little stream, along whose embowered banks a good path 
ascends, favored with rustic seats here and there, and 
leading past a brilliant rosary of sparkling falls and deep 
pools, with strangely worn ledges and cliffs, until the top 
of the last rocky mass is reached, and on it a seat from 
which a line of distant mountains appears, through the 
long umbrageous vista. On the opposite side of the 
hotel —umbilicus montium et acquarum —are Gibbs’s Falls, 
distant a few minutes of brisk walking, where one of the 
brooks from the Presidential Range tumbles whitely over 
a ledge about as high as thirty feet may indicate. 

In an idle hour, it may profit one to - saunter down 
through the Gate of the Notch, and endeavor to find the 
profiles with which it is alleged that the adjacent rocks 
are alive. These allegations at least demonstrate that 
mountaineers are possessed of fecund imaginations. A 
little way beyond, descending the famous old Tenth Turn¬ 
pike, and the Flume Cascade appears, flashing over the 
ledges on the left and then compressed into a narrow 
rocky flume at the bridge. A quarter of a mile further 
down is the Silver Cascade, which descends a thousand 
feet in a single mile of advance, now covering the steep 
ledges with a delicate white veil, like Cluny lace, and now 
forming direct and narrow falls, like marble pillars. 
Beautiful as this scene is after heavy rains, at other sea¬ 
sons it mainly serves to demonstrate the essentialness of 
water to a successful cascade. Some miles below, and far 
secluded in the tangled forest on the west of the railroad, 
are the splendid phenomena of the Ripley Falls and the 
Arethusa Falls, the former reached by a good path leading 
from Avalanche Station, and falling 108 feet, over high 
and imposing cliffs—while the Arethusa Falls are 176 feet 
high, and form one of the most magnificent decorations 
of the hill-country, but are so environed with pathless sav- 




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agery that they are visited but rarely. In this direction, 
also, and near the little flag-station at Moore’s Brook, is 
the path which leads upward for three miles, to the lonely 
crest of Mount Willey, the watch-tower of the Pemige- 
wasset wilderness. 

The Willey House site is three miles from the Crawford 
House, down the Notch road. The historic Willey House 
with its later additions was swept from the White Moun¬ 
tain landscape by fire during the winter of 1899. It was 
one of the show points of the region and its memory is 
closely allied to the Crawford Notch. The older house 
was the favorite tavern in this region ninety years ago, 
where the sturdy Coos farmers used to rest, on their way 
to Portsmouth. Late in August, 1826, occurred a terrible 
mountain-storm, when the solid clouds themselves broke 
like water-spouts against the hills, and hurled vast areas 
of field and forest into the glens below. Such an ava¬ 
lanche roared downward towards the Willey House, but 
was averted from it by a huge rock, which caused the 
rushing slide to open right and left around the house, and 
join below it. Providence had thus well arranged; but 
the free will of Mr. Samuel Willey moved him to flee 
from the house, before the slide began, together with his 
wife and five children, and two servants. They were 
caught in the track of the avalanche, in the frightful dark¬ 
ness of a stormy night, and not a soul escaped to tell the 
story. The mangled bodies of six of the victims were 
found by searching parties, but three of the children were 
never recovered. 

THE BRIDLE-PATH UP MOUNT WASHINGTON. 

This grand old route starts right into the woods at the 
Crawford House, and directly begins to climb the main 
range. For a good pedestrian no better line of attack on 
Mount Washington can be taken, and it can be accom¬ 
plished in a short day, the distance being under ten miles. 
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ing, foi* several travellers have been fatally lost from this 
path under such circumstances. About three miles from 
the Crawford, the path reaches the top of Mount Clinton, 
and thereafter it lies along the crest-line of the range, 
above the limit of trees, and with superb views on every 
side and ahead. Clinton is 4,320 feet high; and it is nearly 
two miles thence to the top of the splendid dark dome of 
Mount Pleasant, 4,764 feet high, covered with several acres 
of grass and alpine flowers, and commanding an almost 
limitless view. Somewhat less than a mile farther, where 
the path curves around the profound chasm of Oakes’s 
Gulf, is the top of Mount Franklin, 4,904 feet high; and 
then the trail traverses the thin edge of the narrow ridge 
between Oakes’s Gulf and the Ammonoosuc Valley, with 
magnificent mountain-architecture on all sides, and ap¬ 
proaches the very picturesque rocky peaks of Mount Mon¬ 
roe, 5,384 feet high, and resembling some vast ruined 
castle, with crumbling towers, and a deep gateway. De¬ 
scending towards Mount Washington, the Lakes of the 
Clouds are soon passed, and the barren plain of Boott's 
Spur sweeps away on the right, towards Tuckerman’s 
Ravine. The great cone of Washington now fills the ad¬ 
vance, and sharp and breathless is the climb which leads 
to its crown. 

THE NEW MOUNT PLEASANT HOUSE. 

Between the Crawford House and the Fabyan House, 
and on the same Ammonoosuc Plain, stands the “new” 
Mount Pleasant The same panoramic view of the lofty 
Presidential Range noticed at Fabyans expands before 
the broad verandas of the Mount Pleasant, though nearer 
and intensified; so near that the ascending and descending 
trains on the Mount Washington Railway are distinctly 
visible. The house is but a half-mile from Fabyans, con¬ 
nected by a plank walk and carriage road, if one chooses, 
or by trains between Fabyans and the summit of Mount 
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THE MOUNT WASHINGTON. 

Still nearer the mountains themselves and some three- 
fourths mile from the Mount Pleasant stands the largesl 
and grandest house in the whole White Mountain region 
The Mount Washington, completed for the season of 1902. 
It is a modern village in its own establishment, standing 
amid glorious mountain scenery on virgin soil and main¬ 
tained in the largest degree of excellence. 

BRETTON WOODS. 

A new station on the Maine Central Railroad, about 
1,000 feet south of the New Mount Pleasant House, called 
Bretton Woods, is the point of arrival and departure for 
all guests of The Mount Pleasant and The Mount Wash¬ 
ington. Carriages ply between the hotels and the Bretton 
Woods station, connecting with all trains. 

THE FABYAN HOUSE. 

About four miles north of the Crawford House, on the 
plain of the Ammonoosuc, stands the spacious building of 
the Fabyan House, the focal point of travel on the west 
side of the mountains. Five hundred guests can be ac¬ 
commodated at once in this great Dover Cliff of a caravan¬ 
sary; with the varied charms of the garage, livery-stable, 
news-stand, billiard-hall, bowling alley, and post-office, to 
say nothing of a parlor covering 3,500 souare feet, and a 
dining-room with an area of nearly 6,000 square feet. 
The external architecture of the house is of the simplest 
order; but the rooms within are high-studded and airy, 
and the halls are wide and commodious. The Fabyan is 
1,571 feet above the sea, and affords a refuge against hay- 
fever, that new recreation of the professional and leisurely 
classes. 

Near at hand stands the old White-Mountain House, 
which dates back nearly seventy years, to the mythic epoch 
of the Rosebrooks. Let us allow the ancient hostelry to 
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came up here from Massachusetts, in 1792, and implanted 
tree-destroying civilization in this lonely glen. Then there 
was a huge mound here, called the Giant’s Grave (which 
the builders of the Fabyan House laboriously shovelled 
away) ; and Ethan Allen Crawford, Rosebrook’s grand¬ 
son, the paramount hunter and mountain-guide, opened a 
hotel by its base, as early as 1803, and sheltered the scat¬ 
tering tourists who came hitherward during the olympiads 
of Madison and Monroe. Three hotels were burned in 
succession, on this site; and the mountaineers spread a 
tradition of a disembodied red-skinned Cassandra, who 
waved a torch on the Giant’s Grave at night, crying: “No 
pale-face shall take deep root here; this the Great Spirit 
whispered in my ear.” Nevertheless the Fabyan has stood 
for many years, and has not yet yielded to that mysterious 
dispensation which causes our summer-hotels to burn up 
just after their last guests have departed, in the autumn. 

Near the front of the hotel is the Fabyan Cottage, 
where winter-travellers find refuge when Coos County is 
a mimic Switzerland; and a little farther toward the 
mountains is the marble monument which covers the tall 
frame of Ethan Allen Crawford. The Ammonoosuc Falls, 
about a league out on the road to Mount Washington, 
rush foaming and plunging in billowy masses over and be¬ 
tween ledges of polished granite, and the Lower Am¬ 
monoosuc Falls, flow through a miniature Watkins Glen 
beside the canyon-road. 

But all these things—nor even the railroad junction close 
by—are not enough to account for such a great hotel in 
so lonely a place. Behold then the true reason—the casus 
adidcandi if you will, or perchance, even, the raison d’etre 
—in that grand panoramic line of mountains to the east¬ 
ward, where Mount Clay supports from the north the vast 
gray mass of Mount Washington (son of the iron age, 
see the climbing mountain-railway, and the white hotel 
on the crest!); while the southern peaks of the Presi¬ 
dential Range stretch away to the right in stately line, 



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ending with the sharp downward slope of Mount Webster, 
at the Notch. The air-lin£ distance to these heights is 
from five to seven miles, across the pathless forests which 
fill the great pleteau of the Ammonoosuc. 

Let us not forbear to say that at this hotel is a railroad 
junction, with tracks leading south to the Crawford House, 
in 4 miles, and North Conway, in 29 miles; west to the 
Twin-Mountain House, in 5 miles, Bethlehem Junction, 
10 miles, the new Profile House, 19^2 miles, and Littleton, 
21 miles; and east to the summit of Mount Washington, 
in 9 miles. 


THE TWIN-MOUNTAIN HOUSE. 

This is one of the neatest and cosiest of the great moun¬ 
tain-hotels, with a far-famed cuisine, and an altitude which 
is valuable as above the hay-fever line. The views there¬ 
from are certainly not inspiring, and the surroundings 
lack the interest which attaches to so many other localities 
in this region; but pleasant drives may be enjoyed in 
several directions, and many distinguished people may be 
seen on the hotel-verandas. This house, with its gucrts, 
and the miscellaneous thousands brought hither on Sunday 
excursion trains, for several years constituted the summer- 
parish of Henry Ward Beecher, who expounded broad- 
church Congregationalism and Christian liberality to all 
who could assemble in the great tent adjoining. The rail¬ 
road-station is across the river from the hotel, 5 miles 
from the Fabyan House and 14^2 miles from the New 
Profile House. 

The Twin Mountains lie to the south, across the Ammo¬ 
noosuc glen, and only one of them is visible, that being 
the North Twin, behind which the great range stretches 
away for nearly eight miles, nearly midway between the 
Franconia Mountains and the Field-Willey range. The 
South Twin is succeeded by Mounts Bond and Guyot, on 
the same tall ridge, the height of the peaks being from 
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years, being remote from roads, and girdled by belts of 
almost impassable dwarf-spruce. Mount Hale (which the 
hotel-people will tell you is “the other Twin”) is finely 
seen from the Twin-Mountain House, and heads the Little- 
River Mountains on the north, commemorating, in its 
name, Edward Everett Hale, who was a famous mountain- 
explorer before the isms and the olatries claimed all his 
attention. 



CHAPTER VI. 


MOUNT WASHINGTON.—THE MOUNTAIN RAILWAY—THE SUM¬ 
MIT.—THE VIEW.—MOUNTS CLAY, JEFFERSON, ADAMS, AND 
MADISON. 

THE MOUNT-WASHINGTON RAILWAY. 

A six-mile branch of the Boston and Maine railroad 
leads from the Fabyan House to the base of Mount Wash¬ 
ington, by high grades up the Ammonoosuc Valley. There 
it connects with the mountain-railway, which ascends to 
the summit in about 3 miles, with an average grade of 
1,300 feet to the mile, and a maximum grade of 1,980 feet 
to the mile, or one in three. The ascent is made in l l / 2 
hour. The locomotives are queer-looking pieces of ma¬ 
chinery, chunky and ungainly, but of enormous power; and 
perform their duty by pushing the cars from below, or by 
retarding their descent from the same relative position. 
The complicated brakes are supplemented by a central rail, 
fitted with cogs, and played into by cog-wheels on the 
locomotive, by which the train slowly ratchets itself up the 
steep slopes. So perfect are the safeguards, that no fatal 
accident has ever taken place on these trains. 

Sylvester Marsh of Littleton invented this wonderful 
piece of mechanism^ and in 1858 received a charter for the 
road, accompanied with much merry banter from the New- 
Hampshire legislators. In 1866 the track was commenced, 
and three years later it was successfully finished. The 
time-table begins in the latter part of June, when the 
Summit House is also opened. 

At Ammonoosuc station at the base of Mt. Washington 
the quaint little train starts sharply upward, on a grade of 
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one foot in three, through a wide lane which has been 
cleared through the woods. The second stop above this 
point is at Waumbek Junction, where the engine takes 
water from a tank near the point where the old Jefferson 
and Fabyan bridle-paths met. The foliage is growing 
smaller and thinner, and finally ceases to obscure the view, 
which includes vast and continually increasing areas of 
New Hampshire and Vermont. 

Jacob’s Ladder is a long and massive trestle, over which 
the train ascends slowly on its most formidable grade, 
1,980 feet to the mile, and at times 30 feet above the rocks. 
Here the tree-line is passed, and the area of sub-alpine 
vegetation begins. Marvellous prospects open on all sides, 
and the rocky humps of Mount Clay draw near, at the 
head of the ravine called the Gulf of Mexico, and with 
the mysterious depths of the Great Gulf opening on its 
further side towards the site of the once famous Glen 
House. The air grows colder and colder, and the August 
of the valleys becomes November on the heights. In every 
direction nothing is seen but gray and frost-splintered 
rocks, with dull mosses and hardy alpine flowers. In the 
last mile of track, from the Gulf Tank to the Summit 
House, there is but 800 feet of rise; and soon after passing 
Lizzie Bourne’s monument the train reaches a level line 
on the summit of Mount Washington. 

THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT WASHINGTON. 

There are higher peaks in the Carolinas and beyond the 
great praries, but no mountain in America has filled so 
large a space in the popular vision as Mount Washington, 
—the culminating point of New-England soil, the monarch 
of the Northern Appalachians. Its temperature and 
botany are those of Middle Greenland; and the varying 
phenomena of frost-work, opening and closing clouds, sun¬ 
rise and sunset, shadows and storms, afford great re¬ 
sources for a college of meteorology, and much interest 
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anemometer from a megatherium. That monumental 
work, the Geology of New Hampshire, says also that this 
is to the botanist the most interesting locality east of the 
Mississippi; and great store of tiny plants, with poly¬ 
syllabic and Alexandrine names, are found along the 
slopes. All the upper part of the mountain consists of 
ragged and angular fragments of mica-slate, broken by 
frost and pitted by storms, verifying its description given 
over 200 years ago in Josselyn’s New England Rarities 
Discovered: “To outward appearance a rude heap of 
massive stones, and you may as you ascend step from one 
stone to another, as if you were going up a pair of stairs.” 

Mount Washington is 6,293 feet high, or more than 
one and one-fifth mile above the sea-level, an altitude 
which renders heavy overcoats and shawls necessary even 
in August. Previous to the disastrous conflagration of June 
18, 1908, that destroyed all except the old stone Tip Top 
House, there was quite a hamlet on its summit, which was 
visited by over ten thousand people annually. The largest 
building was the Summit House, a long three-story structure 
of wood, solidly bound down to the ledges, and adequate 
to the accommodation of 150 guests. Two stories, steam- 
heated, were for sleeping-chambers; the lowest story 
contained parlors, a large dining-room, telegraph and post 
offices, a bric-a-brac shop, the clerk’s throne, and, in the 
centre of the office, a large stove, which usually drew 
within its permanent influence most of the visitors to the 
summit. The old Tip Top House, a massive and low¬ 
browed stone building, was in the rear, and also the 
sanctum of the daily local paper, Among the Clouds. The 
engine-house and turn-table of the railway were also 
near the hotel. A plank-walk led from the Summit 
House to the unused observatory of the United-States 
Signal Service, a tight little wooden house about 36 feet 
long, on the south edge of the summit, and commanding 
one of the very best of the views. Here a picket-post of 
signal-corps men remained throughout several years, en¬ 
during the rigors of winter and the curious tourists of 
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ton the approach of storms and the indications of the 
heavens. Sargent Jewell, who perished at Cape Sabine, 
a member of the ill-fated Greeley Expedition, was for some 
seasons a member of the signal corps stationed on Mount 
Washington. 

The New Summit House, completed in August, 1915, 
with entrance directly from the Mt. Washington Cog- 
Railway Station platform, is a two-story structure (see 
photo, page 88) containing on the first floor, office, dining 
room accommodating 80 guests, lounging room with spa¬ 
cious fireplace, waiting room and souvenir stand. The 
second floor is entirely devoted to sleeping accommodations 
for guests, with ample lavatories and bath-rooms. 

During 1916, the old Tip Top House was destroyed by 
fire, leaving only the stone walls. Upon these was com¬ 
pleted a new old Tip Top House with an enclosed stone 
passage way to the New Summit House, a protection from 
high winds and severe storms at the Summit. In 1632 a 
valiant Irishman named Darby Field penetrated the wilder¬ 
ness from Portsmouth, guided by two Indians, and after 
many days’ march, gained the summit of Mount Wash¬ 
ington, and carried back a delightful account of his adven¬ 
tures, which stimulated the colonists to make several other 
visits, soon afterwards. In 1784, the Rev. Dr. Manasseh 
Cutler, of Ipswich, and six other gentlemen visited the sum¬ 
mit, and it probably received its name then. In 1821, Craw¬ 
ford built a stone cabin here; and in 1840 the first horse 
climbed up. The Summit House dated from 1852 (removed 
in 1884). In 1870-71 Prof. Huntington and three com¬ 
panions passed the winter on the summit, which has since 
been occupied throughout the year. 

The view-line from Mount Washington has a circum¬ 
ference of nearly a thousand miles, including points in five 
States and in Canada. The clearest days are during the 
prevalence of west or north-west winds, after heavy rain¬ 
storms. 

Looking westward down the Ammonoosuc Vallef, over 
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Mountains of Vermont; and still farther away, beyond the 
great Champlain Valley, are several of the remote Adiron¬ 
dack peaks. Farther north are Littleton, Jefferson, and 
Lancaster, the Connecticut River, the Green Mountains 
running into Canada, and the near summits of Clay an* 1 
Jefferson, with the Pilot Hills and white Percy Peaks, and 
the vast undulating wilderness of northern New Hamp¬ 
shire beyond. Mount Adams is the gray crest so near, 
on the north, with Madison alongside it, and over them 
the Androscoggin Valley, and remote peaks along the 
national frontier. Lake Umbagog, Aziscoos, Goose Eye, 
Blue, and many another famous mount of Maine, rise over 
the Gorham valley; and the site of the Glen House shows 
dimly at the foot of the long Moriah-Carter range. 
Then the view passes down the Ellis glens to the graceful 
Kiarsarge, over North Conway and the Saco intervals, 
with Lake Sebago and the hotel on Mount Pleasant on its 
left, and the ocean off Portland. Further to the right Old 
Orchard Beach has been seen, and the Isles of Shoals. 
The two rocky peaks of Moat Mountain are on the righl 
of the Saco meadows, and under Silver Lake and Ossipee 
Lake, with the splendid spire of Chocorua on the right, 
and the blue mass of the Ossipee Range, alongside which 
flash the waters of Lake Winnepesaukee. To the right of 
the round dome of Passaconaway and the high cleft peak 
of Whiteface are the two Uncanoonucs near Manchester, 
and Wachuset, in central Massachust s; and still more 
to the right are the faint blue disk of Monadnock and the 
pyramid of Kearsarge. This view is best gained from the 
signal station, whence one may look down on the Lakes 
of the Clouds, and the lower peaks of the Presidential 
Range, extending to the Notch, with black Carrigain and 
high Osceola on their left, and sharp Willey and Vermont’s 
blue Ascutney on the right.. A little way furthei are the 
glorious serrated ridges of the Franconia Range, the hotel- 
crowned Moosilauke, and the Killington Peaks, near Rut¬ 
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THE FOUR NORTHERN PEAKS. 

Mount Clay adjoins Mount Washington, and is 5,553 
feet high, forming the head-wall of the Great Gulf. There 
are three well-defined and finely-stratified hummocks or 
low rocky knolls on the ridge, steep-sided, and separated 
by sedgy hollows. These are the famous “humps of Clay,” 
which may easily be visited in a half-day, from the summit 
of Mount Washington. 

Mount Jefferson is north of Clay, and is 5,714 feet high, 
with two neighboring peaks, and long spurs making out 
to the west. One of these is the Castellated Ridge, whose 
precipitous rock-piles, crested with turret-ljke ledges and 
crumbling rocky towers, have the semblance of venerable 
ruins of the feudal ages. 

Mount Adams is 5,794 feet high, or only about 500 feet 
lower than Washington itself; while as to shape and 
symmetry it yields precedence to none. The peak re¬ 
sembles a clear-cut pyramid, rising freely from a rocky 
ridge, and flanked by minor masses of rock. For the 
mountaineer it has a peculiar fascination, on account of its 
height, its form, its seclusion, and its magnificent views. 
The crest is composed of a heap of fragments of frost- 
broken rock. The best way to ascend this mountain is 
from Randolph, where Lowe’s path leads upward in four 
miles. 

Mount Madison is 5,365 feet high, and is the great 
dominator of the Androscoggin Valley, from which it ap¬ 
pears in the most beautiful forms and colors. It is indeed 
a very graceful and symmetrical mountain, and would 
claim high admiration but for the close vicinity of its 
greater brethren. The crest consists of a narrow ridge of 
weather-beaten rock 50 to 75 feet long, in the sub-alpine 
district, and braced by long flanking ridges which descend 
to the deep valleys adjacent. 




CHAPTER VII. 


THE GLEN.—THE MOUNT-WASHINGTON CARRIAGE-ROAD.—THE 

WATERFALLS AND RAVINES NEAR THE GLEN HOUSE SITE. 

THE MOUNT-WASHINGTON CARRIAGE-ROAD. 

Starting out from the Glen House site across the 
meadows of the Peabody, the adventurous climber soon 
enters the dark and luxuriant woods which clothe the 
heavy eastern shoulder of the mountain, and so fares up¬ 
ward along the firm white road for nearly four miles, 
while the trees gradually dwindle until they become hardly 
more than shrubbery, and at last disappear altogether, 
leaving the mountain above the Half-Way House, four 
miles up, almost entirely bare, except for the dead white 
trees which cover considerable areas, and bear the name 
of buck’s-horns, or bleached bones. A little way above is 
the Ledge, or the Cape of Good Hope, where the road 
suddenly doubles on itself, ever rising at a high grade, 
and revealing one of the most awe-inspiring views of the 
profound and shadowy depths of the Great Gulf, almost 
under foot, with the splendid peaks of Jefferson, Adams, 
and Madison looming high above, across the chasm. Down¬ 
ward, to the east, is the long green wall of the Carter 
Range, at whose base is a rectangular dot, in which the 
Glen House formerly sat. The prospect continually varies, 
as higher levels are gained, and as the road turns from 
side to side, and faces now the south, and the Saco-Con- 
way region, now the east, and the rising peaks and silvery 
lakes of Western Maine, and now the north, with dainty 
bits of distant landscape, plaided meadows and white vil¬ 
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hand. The grandeur of mountain architecture is more 
evident from this route than from the railroad, as the firm 
white highway ascends by the five great spurs to the east¬ 
ward, looking down into the dark ravines, and out along 
the little Labrador of the Alpine Garden. On one side or 
the other, the topographical map of Northern New Eng¬ 
land is continually outspread, basking in the vivid sun¬ 
shine, or dappled with deep cloud-shadows. At last the 
panting horses, or the weary pedestrian, who has become 
all knees and lungs, clamber up the final high grade, and 
reach the top of the last cone,—the crest of Mount Wash¬ 
ington. 

The valleys toward the Androscoggin first meet the 
view, as the slow ascent is made; and when higher grades 
come, the Saco Valley and its tributary plains of Western 
Maine are unrolled like a vast map. When the ridge of 
Mount Clay is overlooked, from the upper reaches of the 
road, the Ammonoosuc Valley appears, on the west, 
opening away towards the distant Connecticut River, and 
girt with rolling highlands. 

THE ROUND THE MOUNTAIN TRIP. 

Each season at present this profitable and pleasant jour¬ 
ney is made possible by the placing in commission of the 
Mount Washington stages, under the supervision of the 
Fabyan House management. The route is by rail to the 
bast of Mount Washington, the cog-railway to the summit, 
thence by stage down the mountain to the old Glen House 
site and via the Pinkham Notch route and Jackson Village 
to Glen station on the Maine Central Railroad, where 
trains may be taken for the Fabyan House again, or to 
Portland and Boston. 

THE CRYSTAL CASCADE. 

The lover of Nature will find it profitable to go down 
the North-Conway road for three miles, and then diverge 
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stroll up a woodland path, among grand old trees, mossy 
rocks, and the sights and sounds that were once heard 
“eastward in Eden,” to the Crystal Cascade, the first-born 
daughter of Mount Washington, where the stream which 
flows out of Tuckerman’s Ravine falls over a cliff of 
dark slate, 80 feet high, gracefully and merrily, filling the 
woods with the voice of its going. There is a little rustic 
bridge below, whereby one crosses to the right bank, and 
gains a vantage-ground of opposing cliff from which the 
whole sweep of the fall is charmingly visible. 

THE GLEN-ELLIS FALLS 

are about a mile beyond the Crystal Cascade, where 
another friendly guide-board indicates the divergence of 
a path to the left. These are the most beautiful and im¬ 
pressive falls in the State, and have been ardently ad¬ 
mired by poets and painters and the rank and file of 
humanity for over half a century. The name Glen Ellis 
has much prettiness; but the ancient name, Pitcher Falls, 
was closely descriptive, and might well have been retained. 
It is thus that the water is gathered—the delicious frosty 
water from the Snow Arch—as if by the contracting edges 
of a great rocky pitcher, over which it pours in a solid 
and compressed column, 70 feet high, or twice the height 
of the Senate Hall at Washington. The grooves in the 
side of the cliff give a singular spiral twist to the 
water, and slightily deflect it from a direct downward 
course. Above are lapsing rapids; below, a deep dark 
pool gathering the white column of light, and wreathed 
with prismatic mists; overhead are the rugged slopes 
of Mount Wild-Cat; and all around are the forest-arches. 
So much for the details of mensurations, with which a 
volume of this kind must be content, leaving the soul of 
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and Coleridge, Bryant and Lowell, or the spark of poetic 
fire which lingers in every heart. 

TUCKERMAN’S RAVINE. 

Cutting deep into the elephantine mass of Mount Wash¬ 
ington, on its south-east side, and so marked a feature 
as to be visible even in Portland, on a clear day, is this 
vast gorge, which bears the name of one of the most 
honored early explorers of the White Mountains. The 
abrupt promontory of the Lion’s Head, projecting from 
the Alpine Garden, enwalls one side; and the rocky plateau 
of Booth’s Spur forms the other wall; while at the head 
is a line of formidable cliffs, from which descends the so- 
called Fall of a Thousand Streams. In the floor of this 
vast natural cathedral, paved with shattered rocks and 
perfumed by dwindling shrubbery, are the two dark and 
silent Hermit Lakes; and the chancel is fitly furnished 
with the glittering tracery of the Snow Arch, from which 
flow waters purer than those of the Sacramental Lake. 
Here the snows of winter accumulate to a depth of hun¬ 
dreds of feet, compacting into ice, and eaten away by the 
stream beneath until there is formed a deep cavern, whose 
sides and roof are of crystalline beauty. Although it 
vanishes by late August, this is a true glacier, showing (in 
small) all the phenomena of the Mer de Glace, the mo¬ 
raines, and the scratings on the bed-rock. 

There is a sort of path from the Crystal Cascade into 
the ravine, but the best route is by a newly-cleared 
bridle-path which leaves the Mount-Washington carriage- 
road about two miles up, and enters by Hermit Lake. 
One may traverse the ravine, and ascend its head-wall, 
and reach the top of Mount Washington, in from five to 
seven hours from the Glen House site. But the best way 
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in the Appalachian camp near Hermit Lake, with good 
store of blankets and a roaring fire. Then the sunset, the 
gloaming, the solemn starlight, even the red glare of the 
camp fire and the swift sunrise, add infinite charms to the 
varying hours. Solitude, a scene of strangeness, a feeling 
of amazing other-world-ness, fill the soul; and the shop, 
the study, the boudoir, seem removed by infinite aeons 
and impassable spaces. Do not take merry men in there 
to encamp under those majestic dies. Rabelais should 
not intrude in the Homeric realm. 





CHAPTER VIII. 


THE VILLAGES OF THE WESTERN VALLEYS.—BETHLEHEM.— 
FRANCONIA.—SUGAR HILL.—LITTLETON.—WHITEFIELD AND 
DALTON.—JEFFERSON HILL.—LANCASTER. 

BETHLEHEM. 

On a broad terrace near the summit of t,he mountain- 
range which is bounded by the Ammonoosuc and Gale- 
River Valleys, facing the cool north and the wide strath 
which opens into the Connecticut Valley, and so on half¬ 
way to Canada, for the St. Lawrence winds to pass 
through, stands Bethlehem of Coos, which is now one 
of the foremost summer-resorts of America. There are 
several villages in the Carolinas which are higher above 
the sea, but they are lower towards the equator, and also 
more closely environed by highlands, so that Bethlehem’s 
urgent claims for superior coolness based on altitude may 
still hold good. The hay-fever unfortunates also find 
here a safe refuge, and convene their national assemblies 
on these heights without fear of stertorous sneezings, save 
when, on rare occasions, the south winds blow through 
Franconia Notch. The view of the Presidential Range 
from its long tree bordered street is one of the best 
imaginable, being at the true artistic point of distance, and 
showing forth magnificent effects under the light of morn¬ 
ing and evening. One may reach Bethlehem very quickly 
and comfortably from Fabyans by the trains of the Boston 
& Maine Railroad via Bethlehem Junction. This railroad 
takes one directly to Maplewood and Bethlehem; the sta- 

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tions are in the vicinity of the chief hotels; also to the 
new Profile House, but as Kipling says: “That’s another 
story,” for the line to the Profile diverges before reaching 
Bethlehem. 

The material of Bethlehem consists of two great sum¬ 
mer hotels, a score of smaller hotels and boarding-houses; 
churches for the local Congregationalists and Methodists 
and the exotic Episcopalians; three miles of plank side¬ 
walks ; the remarkable pipes and hydrants of the Crystal 
Springs Water Works; the park on Strawberry Hill; and 
the office of the chatty summer paper, the White Mountain 
Echo. The Sinclair House is the oldest of the two large 
hotels, and stands at the divergence of the Franconia 
road, with spacious accommodations and countless Ameri¬ 
can adjuncts of luxury. The Maplewood is about half 
a league distant, and as far also from Bethlehem Junction, 
isolated near the edge of the terrace, and commanding a 
noble view of the distant White Mountains. This is a very 
sumptuous Boston institution, with a massive granite casino 
costing forty-five thousand dollars, the finest building of its 
kind in New Hampshire, handsome cottages, observatories, 
halls, and other choice and palatial accessories, and ranks 
among the foremost of the great mountain hotels. 

The village is 1,450 feet above the sea, and is undeniably 
the coolest place in New Hampshire, off the mountain- 
tops. There are many pleasant drives in the vicinity, 
especially those which lead over the crest of the ridge and 
open the view of the great Franconia Mountains, just 
across a narrow wooded valley, and forming one of the 
most glorious prospects in the whole region. The favorite 
way to enjoy this view is by the drive called, with 
August-refreshing poetry, Around the Heater. The Gale- 
River road leads through a picturesque wilderness, by 
a virgin stream; the Cherry-Valley road is a shady and 
circuitous lane, through pleasant woodland scenes; the 
Kimball-Hill observatory looks over all the vast western 
landscape, from the Adirondacks to the clear peak of 



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Mount Washington; and the rambles on Strawberry-Hill 
and Cruft’s Ledge are rich in their revelations of sylvan 
beauty and far-away mountains. One may also drive 
through Franconia to Sugar Hill; or over Wallace Hill 
to Littleton; or by decaying old Dalton to Lancaster. Or 
he may climb to the near summit of Mount Cleveland, or 
take carriage to summit of Mount Agassiz and from its 
new iron tower get a panoramic view of countless shadowy 
mountains and deep-cut glens. 

Professor Agassiz discovered moraines in the vicinity, 
but they are harmless; and the views which Dwight dis¬ 
covered and Starr King praised are still the chief and 
sufficient attraction of this hill-town, plus a temperature of 
May carried over into August. 

FRANCONIA. 

At the bottom of the profound glen which sinks away to 
the north-west of Mount Lafayette, is this pretty little 
hamlet, whose arctic winters have become proverbial 
throughout the land of John Stark and William E. Chand¬ 
ler. About the time that the First Napoleon was at the 
summit of his glory, iron-works were founded here; but 
they have long been cold and abandoned, and Franconia’s 
best title to fame is its very remarkable view of the dark 
Franconia Mountains, which shut out the light from one 
side of the glen with drop-curtains more magnificent than 
even a New-York manager ever dreamed of. It cannot 
be denied that there are trout in the adjacent brooks; 
and that there are pleasant drives- in all directions— 
Bethlehem, Littleton, Profile House, Sugar Hill—needs 
not to be stated. Nearly 300 urban idlers may be found 
here, on any August Sunday, comfortably and inex¬ 
pensively quartered in the neat boarding-houses which 
stand by the roadside. The Forest-Hills House, first 
opened in 1883, is a spacious first-class hotel, in an eligible 
locality, and with much architectural beauty. 



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SUGAR HILL. 

There is a bold ridge between Lisbon and Franconia, 
crossed by several roads, and lifting its crest of pasture 
and woodland nearly two thousand feet above the sea, 
from which a view may be obtained of the White and 
Franconia Mountains en famille, which is, in the opinion 
of the writer of these solemn pages, at once more grand 
and more beautiful than any other prospect in New 
Hampshire. Not more than ten years ago there was 
a small hamlet on the west slope, commanding the long 
line of the Green Mountains of Vermont; and on the 
east slope a few farm-houses, where occasional groups of 
summer-tourists abode. Now there are three large hotels, 
the Franconia Inn, Sunset-Hill, and Look-Off Houses, 
on the ridge, connected by stages with kakonymous Little- 
ton, and endowed with all the luxuries of Victorian age. 
The hill, like the Sierra Navada or the Himalayas, is 
named for its chief product, whose derivation is found in 
the groves of sugar-maples on the summit. On one side 
appear the ascending terraces of Moosilauke; and on the 
other are the long slopes of Mount Washington, with the 
trains crawling up and down; but the chief feature of the 
scene is the superb Franconia group, seen from founda¬ 
tion to turret, just beyond the deep trench of the valley 
of—alas !—Ham Branch. In spring and autumn the great 
cruciform ravine in Mount Lafayette is filled with snow, 
and the peak becomes as true a Mountain of the Holy 
Cross as any that lures tourists and artists to distant 
Colorado. 

The measured distance from Sugar Hill to Franconia is 
about 2^2 miles; the estimated distance from Franconia to 
the hill is nearly 13 miles. The people at the hill drive to 
the Franconia Notch, or Bethlehem, or Littleton; or ex¬ 
plore the artificial caverns of Ore Hill, or the gold-mines 
at Lisbon, or the copper-mines of Mount Gardner; or visit 
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tangled slopes of Mount Kinsman. Or, better still, they 
stay on the verandas, and look. 

LITTLETON. 

A bright little village, stretching along the Ammonoosuc, 
and slowly climbing the hills to the north, with the usual 
variety of quaint country stores, the usual group of small 
wooden churches, and the usual bank and weekly news¬ 
paper^—so Littleton appears to the casual visitor, who, if 
his turn of mind is practical, will see also a line of small 
factories along the rushing stream. It is indeed the most 
prosperous village in Northern New Hampshire, and 
might have been one of its great summer-capitals, if the 
pioneers of the last century had not changed its name of 
Chiswick to the name which it now bears. It is impossible 
for romantic or aesthetic emotions to be aroused by the 
word Littleton, which comes very near to being the cul¬ 
mination of the common-place. But little do the busy 
citizens care for mellifluous titles. They are too prosper¬ 
ous to netd the help of the summer-boarder; and too 
vigorously Democratic to pander to exotic sentiment. 

There are beautiful prospects from the hills in this 
vicinity; and from the Oak-Hill House and the Chiswick 
Inn, above the village, the vast panoroma of mountains 
includes the Presidential peaks and the Franconia Range, 
in a single coup d’oeil. The drives over the adjacent 
ridges, either towards the Franconia Notch, or to the 
Connecticut River (which bounds the town for thirteen 
miles), reveal other and varying prospects, full of beauty 
and interest. If any one doubts it, let him (or even her) 
drive to Mount Eustis, or Gilmanton Hill, or Mann’s Hill, 
all within two miles, and verify the statement. So, in 
spite of its name and its enterprise, Littleton is yearly be¬ 
coming more and more a favorite point with scenery- 
hunters. Near the centre of the village is that famous old 
inn, Thayer’s White-Mountain Hotel, whose Sunday 
dinners are famous in all northern New England, 





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WHITEFIELD AND DALTON. 

Whitefield is the place where millions of feet of logs are 
buried in the pond every year, to be resurrected in the 
form of shapely boards and symmetrical shingles. On the 
plateau above the great steam-mills and their tenements is 
the pretty village, with its central common and wooden 
churches. About four miles out, on the rim of a long 
slope which descends toward the main range, are the 
Mountain-View House and the Cherry-Mountain House, 
isolated and quiet, and commanding views of great beauty 
and interest. Bray Hill is a gentle eminence about 2 x / 2 
miles distant, which has for many years been famous for 
the grand prospect from its crest: and Kimball Hill, 
crowned by a tall observatory, is even superior as a view¬ 
point, since its horizon is much broader and more diversi¬ 
fied. 

Whitefield is at the junction of the Boston & Maine and 
Maine Central Railroads, both of which run to Jefferson. 
Dalton is an obscure and sequestered hamlet to the west¬ 
ward, behind Dalton Mountain, near the head of the Fif¬ 
teen-Mile Falls on the Connecticut River; and its only 
interest to urban ramblers is in the great mansion of the 
Sumner family, once a sort of feudal castle of this glen, 
later sparsely occupied as a summer hotel, and now aban¬ 
doned. 


JEFFERSON HILL. 

As a place for rural homes and farms, Jefferson was 
discovered and occupied by Col. Joseph Whipple, in 1772; 
and when the Canadian Indians attacked the village, a few 
years latter, he rallied his sturdy tenantry, and beat off the 
invaders with good lusty blows. As a summer-home, the 
place was discovered about eight years later, by Starr 
King, whose glowing descriptions drew another swarm of 
invaders hither, to remain, during the dog-star’s ascend¬ 
ency, as willing captives and tributaries. Several hotels 
have been erected, at favorable points; and a railroad has 




Summit IIousk, Mt. Washington. N. H., Destroyed by fire Ji;ne 18 , 1908 . 


















































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been extended from Whitefield to a station within two 
miles of the new village. Its height above the sea is 1,437 
feet, or within 20 feet of the altitude of Bethlehem, so that 
the hay-fever sufferers cannot suffer here. 

Jefferson Hill is at the point where the Cherry-Mountain 
road strikes the Gorham-Lancaster road, high up on the 
slope of Mount Starr King, at the edge of the mountain- 
forests, and looking down on the fair Jefferson meadows.. 
The ample reason for its being is found in the immense 
landscape of mountains, to the last degree bold and pic¬ 
turesque, which is outspread before it, across and up the 
valley of Israel’s River. The wooded ridges of Cherry- 
Mountain and the Dartmouth-Deception Range crowd the 
foreground, flanked on the left by the Presidential group, 
Madison, with its long slopes toward Gorham; Adams, 
deeply indented by King’s Ravine; Jefferson, nobly con¬ 
spicuous and sharply trenched; and Washington, crested 
by a white hotel and barred by a curving railroad. On the 
right of Cherry are the clear, sharp peaks of the Franconia 
Range, Garfield, the inaccessible, with its dark pyramidal 
spire; Lincoln, a lower summit; and Lafayette, firmly 
drawn against the sky, serrated, gray, and very stately. 
The best authority has proclaimed this altogether the 
point from which to obtain the grandest view of the 
White Mountains; and subsequent visitors, experts in 
aesthetics, have ratified the verdict, with enthusiasm, al¬ 
though certain local attachments still prefer the prospects 
from the Conway roads, or from Jackson, or Bethlehem 
(let us leave Sugar Hill exempt from the comparison). 
Varying combinations of these noble scenic elements may 
be formed by driving out on the North Road, the White- 
field road, or the renowned Cherry-Mountain road. The 
last-named leaves the Ammonoosuc Valley, near Fabayan’s, 
crosses Cherry Mountain, and at Jefferson deflects to the 
eastward, and runs out to Gorham, which is 17 miles from 
Jefferson. No other road in New England offers such 
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the interest of the route. It is the Presidential Range 
which is under vision, not masked by foot-hills and long 
spurs, as on the east side, but abrupt, precipitous, alpine, 
with a few deep and abysmal ravines, separated by steep 
and frowning ridges, and with distinct and localized peaks. 

Five miles out from Jefferson is the Mount-Adams House, 
occupying the best view-point on the road, near Boy Moun¬ 
tain and the Cold-Stream Falls, and under the shadows of the 
huge peaks of Adams and Jefferson, which are within five 
miles in an air-line, and stand out with great vigor 
and fascinating power. One needs the Latin superlatives 
to adequately describe the scene. Several exciting excur¬ 
sions may be made on this side, and C. E. Lowe of Ran¬ 
dolph is the best guide. He has made a new path up 
Mount Adams, from a point about M/ 2 miles beyond the 
Mount-Adams House, traversing the woods by a trail 2 y 2 
miles long, and then clambering over the ledges, above the 
tree-line, for iy 2 miles more. Branch-paths lead to 
Mount Madison and Mount Jefferson, and through the 
appalling chasm of King’s Ravine. This system of paths 
and camps was built under the supervision of the Ap- 
palachian-Mountain Club, by which it is kept in order. 

Mount Starr King is a peak of the Pilot Range, 3,800 
feet high, rising over the village of Jefferson, and acces¬ 
sible by a path 2 T / 2 miles long. The journey should be 
made by mid-afternoon, in order to see the great ravines 
of Adams and Jefferson filled with light; and the mag¬ 
nitude of the view in all directions will richly repay the 
labor of the ascent. 

Cherry Mountain is a long and forest-covered ridge be¬ 
tween Israel’s River and the Ammonoosuc, 3,670 feet high. 

The Stanley Slide occurred July 10, 1885, when an ava¬ 
lanche of earth, rocks, and trees descended the Owl’s- 
Head peak of Cherry Mountain, making a two-mile track 
of devastation, wrecking Oscar Stanley’s house at the 
base, killing several cattle, and mortally wounding Donald 
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is plainly visible from Jefferson, and is visited daily by 
scores of people. 


LANCASTER. 

The largest village near the White Mountains, and one 
of the most beautiful, is Lancaster, the capital of Coos 
County, with its 3,000 inhabitants, numerous churches, 2 
newspapers, public library, academy, and graded schools. 
The Connecticut River flows near, and is bordered by 
broad and highly productive intervales, which form a beau¬ 
tiful feature of the scenery of the valley, besides augment¬ 
ing the revenues of the pleasant Lancastrians. Here, also, 
flows Israel’s River, which descends from the Ravine of 
the Castles, under Mount Jefferson, and crosses the plains 
of Jefferson. In former times Lancaster was a popular 
summer-resoit, but the rapid growth of independent local 
interests, the liberal advertising of other mountain villages, 
and the destruction of the great Lancaster Hotel had 
detracted materially from its success until in 1883 the new 
Lancaster House, a large and handsome Queen-Anne hotel, 
was opened, on the site of the old Lancaster* Hotel, Starr 
King’s favorite resort, when the beautiful little Cobs capital 
speedily regained its ancient prestige as a summer-resort. 
Other hotels have been built, also one on the top of Mount 
Prospect, which is reached by a fine road, and commands 
a view of great interest and extent. 

The chief feature of the landscape is the Pilot Moun¬ 
tains, a far-reaching and wall-like line of highlands, rising 
abruptly from the meadows of Lost Nation and New 
France, serrated with many porphyritic peaks, and still 
awaiting an intelligent explorer. The most impressive 
sight from the village is this great rolling rampart, which 
plays fantastic tricks with the sunshine and shadow, and 
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amethyst. The Presidential Range is also visible, far 
away up the Israel’s-River Valley, dreamy and picture¬ 
like in its soft blue veil of air. and filling the senses with 
lanquid satisfaction. Lunenberg Heights, eight miles away 
in Vermont, and nearly 1,700 feet above the sea, is the 
favorite objective point for drives, and overlooks all the 
western valleys and the highlands which environ and 
compress them. Two miles or so from Lancaster, on the 
Whitefield road, is Mount Prospect, with a fine new road 
to the hotel on the summit, and views over all upper 
Coos and through the mountain regions from the white 
Percy Peaks, by the entire Presidential line and the 
jagged Franconia Range, down to remote blue Moosi- 
lauke. 

Lancaster is on both the Boston & Maine and the Maine 
Central railroads, 8^4 hours distant from Boston, via 
Portland, North Conway or Fabyans, and near a connec¬ 
tion with the Grand Trunk Railway at Grooveton Junction 
(B. & M.), or North Stratford (M. C. R. R.) 


THE UPPER COOS COUNTY. 

Above Jefferson and Lancaster the Maine Central line, 
extended from Fabyans in 1890, follows the Connecticut 
River through North Stratford and Colebrook, 108 miles 
toward and but 119 miles from the city of Quebec, con¬ 
necting at Duds well Junction with the Quebec Central 
Railway, and running through cars between the ancient 
city and White Mountain points. 

By its extensions from Fabyans, one of twenty miles 
toward Lunenburg in Vermont, opening western connec¬ 
tions to Niagara and Chicago, completed in 1889, and 
the second toward Quebec, the Maine Central has added 
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Mountain attractions, the rails following the windings of 
that mighty river. 

“Fresh from the rock and welling by the trees, 
Rushing to meet and dare the breast of the sea, 
Fair, noble, glorious river! in thy wave 
The sunniest slopes and sweetest pastures lave.” 
crossing and recrossing from the New Hampshire to the 
Vermont shore several times as if in play—if anything so 
fanciful may be attributed to a railroad. 

Lost now is the unfamiliar foreign sound which has 
ever clung about the names of Colebrook, Dixville Notch 
and the Magalloway. Reached by an American railroad, 
without the fuss and feathers attendant upon numerous 
changes of cars, they are won into the great family of 
White Mountain resorts albeit some distance away, though, 
says the poet: 

“ ’Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, 

And robes the mountain in its azure hue.” 

Colebrook is a thriving and beautiful village, dominated 
by Mount Monadnock; which overlooks the town from 
the Vermont shore. Nearly every visitor to Colebrook 
makes a point of climbing Monadnock, whose summit can 
be reached in a climb of three miles from the village 
streets. There are numerous other points of interest, and 
ponds and streams affording fine fishing, and many de¬ 
lightful drives, making Colebrook a desirable place in 
which to spend the summer months. 

From Colebrook to Errol, where connection is made 
with steamers through the Rangeley Lakes in Maine, is a 
stage ride of twenty-one miles, ten miles to and eleven 
miles beyond the Dixville Notch. An excellent carriage 
road extends the entire distance. Stages leave Colebrook 
by seven in the morning, delivering the passengers at the 
Balsams in the Notch, then pursuing the way over Clear 
Stream Meadows to Errol Dam on the Androscoggin 
River, where a steamboat connects to ascend the river six 




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miles to its exit from red Umbagog; cross the latter lake 
four miles, and by buckboard and steamer reach the Mid¬ 
dle Dam Camps at six in the evening after one of the 
most wildly beautiful trips possible in this region of won¬ 
derful scenery. Or, instead of crossing Umbagog, ascend 
the Magalloway River from its junction with the Andros¬ 
coggin, steamers running to Berlin Mills station, 16 miles 
away. 

The Magalloway is hardly more than a hundred feet 
wide, and winds fantastically through forest aisles of ver¬ 
dant green or past natural meadows dotted with royal 
elms. Inflowing streams join hands from haunts of deer 
and wild fowl, while forest sights and woodland sounds 
charm the dreamy senses. Buckboard, steamer, and por¬ 
tage path lead from Berlin Mills House to Parmacheenee 
Lake, solitary among the far north woods, where many 
sportsmen spend weeks of every season surrounded by 
every charm of nature and with every possibility for 
sport. On a romantic island near the head of the lake 
stands Camp Caribou, home of the happy. Should the 
visitor to Umbagog or Parmacheenee wish to return an¬ 
other route, he has the Farmington-Phillips rail line, 
reached by steamers traversing the most populous pathway 
through the Rangeley Lakes, and making the exit at Farm¬ 
ington, Maine, from which point express trains reach 
Boston in 6 hours, or again by the Maine Central route 
from Oquossoc to Portland, via Rumford Falls. 

This round the circle route, or the ride from Colebrook 
to the lakes, leads through the Dixville Notch, a triumph 
of the grand and curious in nature to which chapters 
might be devoted. Its characteristics are thoroughly Al¬ 
pine. To be sure there is not the vastness of Switzerland 
here, for the Notch is only three miles in extent, but all 
the lements of an Alpine section are represented . 

On each side of the glorious gorge are crags and spires 
of most curious formation, some standing out naked and 
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their scraggy heads above the evergreens which hide all 
else of their ugly nakedness. The confusion of rocks is 
more dire and dreadful to behold than a glacier, and looks 
as though it must last forever. 

The Balsams, situated at the approach to the Notch, as¬ 
sures one of comfort, and red-letter days might be passed 
amid the quiet and interesting seclusion of this haven of 
rest. 

Diamond Pond, well-known to sportsmen, is reached by 
stage from Colebrook, a distance of 10 miles, and from 
West Stewartstown, a station 8 miles above Colebrook. 
stages convey many sportsmen to the four Connecticut 
lakes. These lakes are noted mainly for their elevation 
(the highest is 2,551 feet above the sea) ; their beauty, 
the graceful contour of their shores, the symmetry of their 
projecting points, the stately growth of their primeval 
forests, having elicited much praise, as have also the hunt¬ 
ing and fishing possibilities of the region. The first fake, 
a dozen miles at most from the Maine Central station, 
has a small steamboat and a summer hotel. Its shores in¬ 
close perhaps three square miles. Second, third, and 
fourth lakes occur in regular order, the farthest close to 
the St. Lawrence watershed and the Canadian border. 



CHAPTER IX. 


fHE NEW PROFILE HOUSE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS.—THE FRAN¬ 
CONIA MOUNTAINS.—MOUNT LAFAYETTE.—THE FLUME 
HOUSE. 

THE FRANCONIA MOUNTAINS. 

In the town of Franconia are the three chief peaks of a 
very picturesque group of mountains, which extends sev¬ 
eral miles to the southward, west-south-west of the White 
Mountains, and separated from the Presidential Range 
by two chains of ponderous peaks. Although less lofty 
than the other mountains, they excel in the alpine character 
of their sharp points and slender spires; while their un¬ 
broken robes of green forest give them an air of quiet 
beauty which compensates for the absence of the desolate 
and gloomy grandeaur of their eastern brethren. 

As a rule the traveler hears all the mountains of North¬ 
ern New Hampshire named under the one general title, 
the White Mountains. No doubt they are all closely allied, 
being offshoots from that great Appalachian chain which 
border the Continent upon the Atlantic side. Yet the 
Franconians are as distinct a group by themselves as are 
the Adirondacks or the Catskills, albeit they do not have 
the broad waters of a Lake Champlain or a Lake George 
between them. The same railroad systems that render 
travel to and through the White Mountains so comfortable 
and expeditious, connect the villages and towns which lie 
among the Franconias. Those towns and villages partake 
of the same mountain characteristics, spruced up for and 
expectant of the summer guest. On the border land 
between the two mountain chains lie two of the most 
popular mountain resorts, Bethlehem and Maplewood. 

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\ iew South from Baud Mt m Franconia Notch, White Mountains 










The New Profile House and Cottages, White Mountains 











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Jefferson is off to the right but a short distance, while 
nestled in its own picturesque glen lies that which until 
recently has been the largest hostelry of its kind in the 
whole mountain region. 

THE NEW PROFILE HOUSE. 

This beautiful new hotel built during the season of 1906 
stands amid its own select group of twenty private cot¬ 
tages, in a narrow glen near the head of that famous pass, 
the Franconia Notch. It is the Capital of the entire sur¬ 
rounding region and gives shelter to rising 500 guests. 
Its patronage is of the highest order of excellence. The 
Profile House has long been noted as one of the leading 
summer resorts of New England as it certainly is one of 
the most beautiful in situation. The cliff-enwalled basin in 
which this wilderness-palace stands is 1,974 feet above the 
sea. 

In the year 1879 a railroad was built from the main line 
of the now Boston & Maine Railroad at Bethlehem Junc¬ 
tion, running through nealy ten miles of forests and find¬ 
ing its terminus near the Profile House, from which, how¬ 
ever, it is happily concealed by a screen of groves. By this 
route, the Franconia Notch is made very accessible to the 
outer world, while its manifold beauties have been judi¬ 
ciously saved from blemish. To the southward, the stages 
still roll away down the Notch to the terminus of the new 
Pemigewasset-Valley Railroad, ten miles from the Profile 
and five miles from the Flume. The new Profile House is 
and must remain the great centre for all excursions in 
this lovely Franconian region, whose manifold and diver¬ 
sified attractions are so worthy of observation. For half 
a century there has been a hotel of great excellence in this 
renowned site, and during the years 1905-06, it was entirely 
rebuilt on the most modern lines, and was opened in June, 
1906, to a greater popularity than ever. 






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ECHO LAKE. 

Nearly every large mountain-hotel has its museum of 
natural curiosities, in the adjacent glens; but that of the 
new Profile House is fairly rivalled by but few others. 
From the veranda of the house, the view falls upon Eagle 
Cliff, a precipitous foot-hill of Mount Lafayette, 1,472 feet 
above the road, and furnishing a colossal screen upon 
which the clouds and the sunlight form magic pictures. 
Uuder its iron-bound walls is the lovely Echo Lake, one 
of the daintiest imaginable bits of water-scenery, with 
a flotilla of white row-boats wherein summer-idlers float 
hroughout the dreamy days. The little cannon which from 
time to time is fired on the shore resembles that piece of 
South-Carolinian artillery which threw the first shot 
against Fort Sumter's walls, in the terrible reverberations 
and threatening crashes which are thrown back to it from 
all points of the compass. Just beyond the lake is the low 
and rocky pile of Bald Mountain, easily accessible, and 
commanding a dividend-paying view of the Notch, and the 
Franconia Valley to the north. 

THE PROFILE. 

The Profile is perhaps the cardinal wonder of the New 
Hampshire highlands, and has won worship from ancient 
tribes of Indians, transcendental fancies from Nathaniel 
Hawthorne, and astonishment from myriads of travellers. 
The old geographies used to portray it, in company with 
the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the gigantic natives of 
Patagonia; and the railroad circulars still use the same 
venerable cut. Probably there is not finer or more im¬ 
pressive phenomenon of the kind in the world. Twelve 
hundred feet above the base of Mount Cannon are three 
ledges of granite, about 90 feet high, whereof one forms 
the forehead, another the nose and upper lip, and the third 
the heavy chin, of a vast human profile, facing the south¬ 
east, and clearly relieved against the sky. Recent investi¬ 
gations by skillful climbers have shown that these ledges 





The Old Man of thf. Mountain, Near Profile House 
Franconia Notch, N. H. 













The 

New Profile House 

and Cottages 

White Mountains 

Season, June 30th - Sept. 23th 

This new hotel with twenty cottages comprises 
one of the largest and best equipped of leading sum¬ 
mer resorts. 

Unexcelled in location and clientele. 

Here the best only can be obtained. 

An estate containing six thousand acres extending for nine 
miles through Franconia Notch v 

Associated with the Ideal Tour--most convenient 
for automobile parties, and largely patronized by 
them. Train service (day and night) between New 
York, Boston and eastern cities, N. Y., N. H. & H. 
and B. & M. R. R. 

PROFILE & FLUME HOTELS COMPANY 

C. H. GREENLEAF, Pres. A. E. DICK, Manager 

EVERETT B RICH, Asst. 


THE FLUME HOUSE 

AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN 

Near the Famous Flume in Franconia Notch. On the Ideal 
Tour--State Highway--25 miles north from Plymouth. Meals 
a la Carte is a distinctive new feature. A telephone in advance 
insures food carefully prepared and ready upon arrival, or reser¬ 
vation of rooms. American Plan for permanent guests if desired 
Open from June 1st to October 15th, to accomodate early and 
late motorists. 

S. H. BIGELOW, Manager. 

P. O- Address, Flume House, N. H. 


Affiliated City House, The Hotel Vendome, Boston 

























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are still firm and strong, and likely to endure. A few 
minutes’ walk south of the Profile House, a guide-board 
by the roadside tells the passer-by to look up; and there, 
high over the quiet lake, is the Great Stone Face, less 
preternaturally huge than the pictures indicate, but not 
less amazing in its silent grandeur. Walk northward a few 
feet, and the grim and determined features relax into the 
similitude of a toothless old woman; while from certain 
points on higher ground it appears like the face of some 
amiable village Hampden. The beautiful crystalline tarn 
at the foot of the mountain is Profile Lake, where a little 
navy of dainty boats is kept, to wage war on the trout 
from the hatching-houses above, or to give Paul and 
Virginia a chance to insulate themselves in the embowered 
coves towards the outlet of the Pemigewasset-Merrimac. 

Lonesome Lake is on a shoulder of Mount Cannon, a 
thousand feet above the road, with a bridle-path leading up 
from a point about two miles below the new Profile House. 
On its remote shores, amid the great forests, a picturesque 
chalet has been erected by the owners of the lake and its 
environs. 

Walker’s Falls are on the left of the road, about three 
miles from the Profile House, and are visited by a forest- 
path leading first to a series of step-like plunges, then to a 
fall of 50 feet, and then another fall of 60 feet. Above this 
succession of cascades the stream may be seen, flowing out 
of the White-Cross Ravine. 

Mount Cannon rises directly over the Profile House to a 
height of 1,876 feet, or 3,850 feet above the sea, and is 
ascended by a path two miles long, leading also to the 
Cannon Rock, a granite ledge which looks like a heavy 
gun when seen from below. The chief features of the 
view are the splendid peaks of Mount Lafayette, just 
across the Franconia Notch, and the wide expanse of the 
Pemigewasset Valley, running below distant Plymouth, 
and full of rare beauty and richness. 





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MOUNT LAFAYETTE. 

The tallest and most conspicuous of the Franconia 
Mountains is 5,259 feet high, with a remarkable sharp, 
clear-cut, and thin crest-ridge, nearly a mile and a half 
long, and serrated with several keen peaks of rock. On 
one side is the deep and unvisited ravine of the Fran¬ 
conia Branch, and on the other are the inaccessible semi¬ 
glaciers of the White-Cross Ravine and the forests of the 
Franconia Notch. The slopes fall away from the narrow 
crest-like (furrowed by a deep path worn by animals) 
almost precipitously, into hollows of amazing depths. La¬ 
fayette is one of the most symmetrical and attractive of 
the New Hampshire peaks, and has doubtless aroused in 
many minds similar emotions to those which President 
Dwight expresses with such droll solemnity: It “removes 
all doubts in my mind concerning the practibility of unit¬ 
ing the most exquisite beauty with the most exquisite 
sublimity.” The mountain received its name at the time 
of the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to America, about 
the year 1825. 

The path used to be practicable for saddle-horses, many 
of which ascended during each season. Such accommoda¬ 
tions are no longer furnished, and the ascent must be made 
on foot, with comfortable slowness. It is well to start 
early. The path enters the woods close to the Profile 
House, and in a mile of climbing reaches the notch be¬ 
tween the mountain and Eagle-Cliff spur. One and a 
quarter miles farther leads to the plateau of the western 
spur, covered with impenetrable copses, and upholding the 
lofty tarns of the Eagle Lakes. A mile and a half of climb¬ 
ing over the sloping ledges of the main peak ensues, with 
fascinating views on all sides; and then the summit is 
reached, miles from the Profile House. The ruins of 
an old stone house are found here; and there is a clear 
spring not far below. 

Looking to the north-east and east, beyond the adjacent 
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which appear the various peaks of the Presidential Range 
(Mount Washington with its hotel and railroad) and the 
Mount-Willey group. More to the right, far away, are the 
sharp peak of Kiarsarge and the long dark wall of Mount 
Pleasant (in Maine), each crowned by a hotel. Across 
the wilderness of Pemigewasset appear the vast Mount 
Carrigain and the far-reaching Mount Hancock, the white 
spire of Chocorua, the sierra of Tripyramid, and the dark 
pinnacles of Osceola and Tecumseh. To the right of the 
Lafayette ridge appears the fair Pemigewasset Valley, with 
Kearsarge and Manadnock far beyond, and Moosilauke, 
over the Warren mountains. Across the Franconia Notch 
are the vast bulwarks of Kinsman and Cannon, with the 
quiet waters of Lonesome Lake. To the right of Cannon 
are the very distant peaks of Camel’s Hump, Mansfield 
and Jay, in the Green Mountains, with the houses of 
Franconia and Littleton in the foreground, and the sharp 
cleft of the Willoughby Notch far away on the horizon, 
and Owl’s Head, in Lower Canada. Farther around are 
the white bubbles of the Percy Peaks, the Pilot Hills, the 
heights of Bethelehem, and the bright village of Jefferson 
Hill. It is a magnificent view, one of the six finest in the 
entire mountain region. 

THE FLUME HOUSE. 

A little more than five miles from the Profile House, 
and 543 feet below it, down the Franconia Notch, is the 
Flume House, with room for a hundred and fifty guests. 
On one side the Arcadian scenery of the Pemigewasset 
Valley stretches away in a vista full ten leagues long; and 
in front are the forest-clad peaks of the Franconia Range, 
forming the profile called Washington Lying in State. 
The beautiful contrast between these two views, the rich 
peace of the lowland strath, and the sublimity of the close¬ 
ly environing mountains, gives a continual charm and 
refreshment to the sojourn here. The Pool is reached by 
a path a little over half a mile long, through the woods, 




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and is a broadening of the young Pemigewasset River, a 
hundred feet wide, surrounded by black cliffs of great 
height, which the water enters by a cascade and leaves in 
rapids. For many years a quaint old aquatic Diogenes 
lived here, in a rude boat, imposing tribute on all who 
were content to be amused by his cosmogonic speculations. 

The Basin is another Pemigewasset by-play, near the 
roadside, a mile and a half up the Notch, where the 
pellucid waters of the juvenile Merrimac are gathered in 
a huge granite bowl, fifteen feet deep and sixty feet 
around, and whirl around in a green-hued Maelstrom, 
impelled by a white cascade from above. Just below is 
the mouth of the Cascade Brook, which Mr. Prime calls 
the finest brook in America for scenery and small trout, 
and up whose course, nearly a mile, by a labyrinthe so- 
called path, are the brilliant Tunnel Falls, with a rarely- 
visited but very attractive Island Falls a half-mile higher 
up, and three miles below Lonesome Lake. 

The Georgianna Falls are reached from a point about a 
mile south of the hotel, by a difficult path nearly two miles 
long. Here the outlet of Bog Pond falls heavily over a 
cliff 80 feet high, filling the defiles of Mount Pemigewasset 
with its music, but rarely seen or heard, except by the 
birds and the deer. 

Mount Pemigewasset is over the Flume House, and 
may be climbed, by means of a steep bridle-path, l l / 2 mile 
long, leading through the forest to the verge of the sum¬ 
mit-cliffs. The view includes two notable scenes; the 
smiling valley of the Pemigewasset, hemmed in by Moun¬ 
tains and lit up by the flashing stream; and the neighbor¬ 
ing Franconia peaks, so near as to be visible from base to 
crest, and indented by the shadowy White-Cross Ravine. 

THE FLUME. 

The greatest wonder at the southern gateway of the 
Franconia Notch is the deep and narrow canon which has 
been eaten by a mountain-brook in the coarse granite 




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ledges near the base of Mount Flume. This famous local¬ 
ity is less than a mile from the Flume House, and a 
carriage-road runs almost to its entrance. Thence ascend¬ 
ing over broad inclines of granite, over whose shining 
slope the water slips in thin crystal sheets, the gate of 
the Flume is soon reached. The canon is in fact a trench 
700 feet long and from 10 to 20 feet wide, between parallel 
perpendicular cliffs fully 60 feet high. At the bottom a 
merry little brook dashes down among the rocky frag¬ 
ments, skirted and often crossed by an easy plank walk. 
Between the narrowing walls in the upper part of the 
Flume, a huge boulder was held for centuries gripped 
tightly by the opposing cliffs, midway between the rim 
and floor of the chasm. This huge rock was swept away 
in June, 1883, when a tremendous avalanche, caused by 
rains on the peaks above, rushed downward through the 
Flume, lengthening and deepening the chasm, and adding 
two new waterfalls to its attractions. The walk leads 
up to the head of the Flume, whence adventurous souls 
and vigorous bodies (of the Appalachian-Club species) 
have ascended to the summit of Mount Liberty. 

The Franconia Notch is reached on the south by the 
Pemigewasset-Valley Railroad (opened in 1883), which 
leaves the Boston & Maine Railroad at Plymouth and runs 
northward across Campton and other valley towns 
to a point in North Woodstock, five miles below the 
Flume House. Near its terminus, in the year 1887, was 
opened the large and comfortable Deer-Park Hotel. 



CHAPTER X. 


PLYMOUTH.—CAMPTON AND WATERVILLE.—THE PEMIGEWAS- 
SET VALLEY.—MOOSILAUKE. 

PLYMOUTH. 

The chief summer resort on the south-west side of the 
mountains in Plymouth, the beautiful and prosperous 
academic village near the confluence of the Pemigewas- 
set and Baker’s River, captial of Grafton County, withal, 
and famous commercially for its manufacture of buckskin 
gloves. It boasts of lovely and productive meadows, 
dotted with the most graceful elm-trees; and the moun¬ 
tain born Pemigewasset rushes merrily along the edge 
of the terrace on which the village is built. There are 
three churches here, the State Normal School, and more 
than a thousand inhabitants. In 1712 the Indian town on 
this site, chief place of all Northern New Hampshire, 
was destroyed by Massachusetts rangers, with many of 
its people, and after fifty years of raids by both combatants 
through the valley, the locality was occupied by white set¬ 
tlers. Afterwards, it became known as the birthplace 
of abolitionism in New Hampshire. In its court-house, 
Daniel Webster delivered his first plea; and in its hotel, 
Nathaniel Hawthorne died, in 1864. 

Fully 500 city-folks spend part of every summer here, 
attracted by the pure air, and the beautiful drives in the 
vicinity. The Pemigewasset House is a large and first- 
class establishment, fronting on wide lawns, toward the 
village, and with the Boston & Maine Railroad and the 
beautiful Pemigewasset River behind and below it. No 
fewer than 300 guests can be accommodated here, with 
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high and airy rooms, a quadrille-band to beguile the 
evening hours con espressione, parlors of generous dimen¬ 
sions, news-stands, barber -shop, and reading-room. Let 
it be said, without prejudice to others, that this house is 
famous for the scrupulous neatness with which it is kept, 
in all parts. In the village there are several other board¬ 
ing-houses, with all grades of prices and accommoda-tions. 

The map will show the extent and variety of the drives 
in this vicinity, revealing rare views of the Franconia and 
Waterville Mountains, and the emerald meadows of the 
two rivers. The venerable Episcopal Church of Holder- 
ness, 1^2 mile distant, should be visited; and the Liver¬ 
more Falls, 2 miles up on the road to the Profile House, 
will repay the ride, especially by the beautiful views from 
the road in ascending. 

The chief mountain-excursion is that to the top of 
Mount Prospect, nearly 5 miles distant, and reached by an 
easy carriage-road over the upland pastures. The view 
from the crest is famous for its variety and beauty, and 
includes a vast area of central New Hampshire, Mount 
Washington, the sierra of the Franconia Range, the deep 
trench of the Pemigewasset Valley, and hundreds of 
greater and lesser peaks filling all the north and northeast, 
with the delightful and variegated scenery of the lake- 
country on the other side. A visit to the top of this 
mountain is justly considered de rigueur, for all sojourners 
at Plymouth. 

CAMPTON AND WATERVILLE. 

Campton Village, girdled with beautiful hills, and bor¬ 
dered by grassy meadows, is the Summer capital of the 
upper Pemigewasset Valley, and receives every year 
several hundred urban lowlanders, who seek and find the 
fountain of health among these graceful hills. There is 
a small church here, two or three shops, a dozen boarding¬ 
houses, and a railway-station, erected in the year 1883. The 
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are several favorite rambles over the pasture hills in the 
neighborhood, revealing beautiful views of the Franconia 
Mountains and the great ranges towards Moosilauke. 
The crowning attraction of Campton, however, is that 
which is seen from its streets,—the view of the Waterville 
peaks, up the Mad^River Valley. There they stand, the 
noble trio, Welch Mountain on one side, altogether rocky, 
and most brilliant in colon Tripyramid in the centre, and 
more distant, striped from top to bottom with a vivid white 
side; and on the right the enormous bulk of Sandwich 
Dome. The people throughout all the countryside call 
this latter Black Mountain, in recognition of its prevailing 
color; but the geographers have named it Sandwich Dome, 
because there are too many other Black Mountains in 
New Hampshire. The Camptonians are altogether an 
agricultural people, and fifty tons of maple-sugar have 
been prepared here in a single year. 

Among the Alpine excursions made from this point is 
that to the top of Mount Weetamoo, 5 miles distant by 
road and nearly 2 miles more by path, whence one may see 
Lake Winnepesaukee and Mount Washington. Another is 
the ascent of Welch Mountain, about 6 miles distant, 
and a remarkably handsome piece of rocky architecture, 
bright in color and symmetrical in form. Still another is 
the trip to Morgan Mountain, about 9 miles distant, with 
a path a mile long leading to a crest which overlooks the 
exquisite scenery of Squam Lake and Lake Winnepesau¬ 
kee, with their hundreds of dainty islands and grove¬ 
laden capes. 

WATERVILLE. 

About 18 miles from Plymouth, and 12 miles from 
Campton Village, is the mountain-resort known as Gree¬ 
ley’s (now Elliott’s), and for many years frequented by 
transcendental and liberal Bostonians. At this point the 
Mad-River Valley ends, and the road becomes no thor¬ 
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formidable mountains. Two trails run out over high 
passes, one through by Livermore to the White-Mountain 
Notch; and the other over Flat Mountain to Upper Sand¬ 
wich. Another rude road leaves the valley below, and 
crosses the breezy Sandwich Notch, to the lake-country 
on the South. There are very beautiful views from the 
road up from Campton; and the low eminences in the 
glen command striking prospects. The vast walls of the 
Waterville Valley are composed of Mount Tecumseh, 
Osceola, Tripyramid, and Black Mountain, or Sandwich 
Dome. They are nobly conspicuous from all points on the 
lowlands, and form objects worthy of great admiration 
and continual interest. Elliott’s is 1,536 feet above the sea, 
and is surrounded (beyond its meadows) by deep forests, 
among which trout-brooks abound. The Cascades, the 
Greeley Ponds, the Flume, and other points of attraction, 
are reached by easy paths; and there are longer Appala¬ 
chian paths to the summits of the adjacent mountains. 
One of these leads to the top of Osceola, 4,400 feet high, 
in a little over four miles; another gains the crest of 
Tecumseh; and a third winds over the long ridges and 
sharp peaks of Sandwich Dome (Black Mountain) to its 
summit, from which a superb view is afforded, including 
the great family of the White Hills on one side, and the 
shining plains of Squam and Winnepesaukee on the other. 
This prospect is without doubt one of the very noblest in 
all New Hampshire, and affords an infinite variety of con¬ 
trasting episodes. 

THE PEMIGEWASSET VALLEY. 

What thj Saco Valley is to the White Mountains, the 
Pemigewasset Valley is to the Franconia Range, the long 
and delicious vestibule through which access is gained 
to the very many shadowy hills at the end. The name 
itself breathes forth the free spirit of nature, and sounds 
like the long rustle of pine-boughs, or the rush of sylvan 
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ous composite words which our Indians could make as 
well as modern German philosophers can, and means 
Crooked-Mountain-Pine-Place. Born in Profile Lake, and 
re-enforced by long streams from the wilderness about 
Thoreau Falls, this sesquipedalian stream descends 1,500 
feet in the first 30 miles of its course, filling the lovely 
valley with music and coolness, and fructifying leagues of 
level green intervales. 

The Pemigewasset train leaves Plymouth, on the arrival 
of the Boston train, and ascends the valley to the ter¬ 
minus, five miles from the Flume House. Beyond Liver¬ 
more Falls are several famous view-points on the road, 
and the tall peaks about Waterville loom up conspicuously 
on the right. Soon West Compton is reached, with San¬ 
born’s ancient inn, beloved by artists, and just across the 
river from the mild summer-resorting of Campton Village. 

The next town to be traversed is Thornton, prolific 
in corn, potatoes, and maple-sugar, Scottish in scenery, 
and for a quarter of a century the parish of Dr. Noah 
Worcester. There are a few farm boarding-houses 
scattered here and there in the town; and the pretty Mill- 
Brook Cascades, 42 feet high, are near the road east of 
the river. Just beyond West Thornton is the most 
striking view of the stage-road, where the Franconia 
Mountains, foreshortened along their axis, are grouped 
in a cluster of sharp dark spires. 

Woodstock, “the head 6f plough navigation,” is the 
next town traversed by the advancing railway-train, 
nearer the Franconia Range, amid wilder surroundings of 
ridge and forest, and with a much scantier population. 
The mountains appear in several grand views from the 
road, and command continual attention. At North 
Woodstock are a few boarding-houses; and the Deer-Park 
Hotel is a charmingly situated summer-resort. On the 
east a road leads across the river, and a short distance 
into the edge of the Pemigewasset wilderness, to Pollard’s 
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ducts to the Agassiz Basins, and in to the trail which 
leads to Moosilauke and Warren. 

Beyond Woodstock and the railway terminus, the 
stage-road rises rapidly, and soon enters the portals of the 
Franconia Notch, hard by the Flume House. 

MOOSILAUKE, AN INTERESTING PEAK.—AN EXCEL¬ 
LENT OBSERVATORY. 

Of the numerous peaks of the White Mountain range, 
no single mountain, not even the King, Mt. Washington, 
with his wealth of scenic splendor and legendary lore, from 
whose summit the Indians’ great “Manitou” scattered his 
sunbeams and hurled his anger in the form of loud thun¬ 
der-bolts, and where now touiists gather to gaze with awe 
and wonderment upon the tumbled peaks and ravines of 
the mountains and the green swards of the valley, sur¬ 
passes in interest and beauty the bold peak of old Moosi¬ 
lauke. Situated some miles from his nearest neighbors, 
the Franconia Mountains, Moosilauke gazes with a sense 
of superiority at the rest of his relatives, and looks toward 
Mt. Washington with less of reverence than disdain. 
Supreme monarch of his own domains, 4,811 feet above 
the sea, as the highest elevation in New Hampshire south 
of Mt. Lafayette he is conscious of additional superiority 
in the possession of three distinct peaks. The summit is 
a broad plateau of many acres, with no big boulders such 
as characterizes most of the White Mountain peaks. It is 
above the timber line and alpine plants and mountain 
cranberries constitute its only vegetation. 

On the north is a high, broad crest and farther north 
a blue dome, Mt. Blue. A long narrow ridge joins the 
south peak and the crest. The summit is the northern 
peak, and here is located the Tip Top House, built in 
1860. This hotel has lately been remodeled and enlarged 
and can comfortably care for fifty guests. To reach it by 
train, the traveler should alight at Warrpn Station, 
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for Breezy Point. Breezy Point is a southern spur of the 
mountain, seventeen hundred feet high, five miles from 
the summit and equally distant from Warren. The view 
from this point is superb, looking towards the peaks of 
Kineo, Cushman and Waternomee. The Moosilauke, an 
excellent modern hostelry, delightfully situated well up 
on the spur, will care for the tourist at this point. Buck- 
boards and good horses can be procured for the trip to 
the Tip Top House. On the East side of Moosilauke is 
the Jobildunk Ravine, in whose upper part is the Jobil- 
dunk Cascade. On the west slope, is the head of an 
enormous slide over two thousand feet long, at an angle of 
about forty degrees and with a width varying from fifteen 
to fifty feet. The most amazing of the natural wonders 
of Moosilauke is the vast Amphitheatrical Gulf near the 
Benton trail. It is eight hundred feet deep, and a peculiar 
feature is that this great cavern is literally filled with 
growing trees whose verdure seems to suffer not at all, 
from their strange location. The summit can be reached 
by three approaches, by carriage road from Warren, by 
bridle path from Benton and by foot paths from North 
Woodstock and Warren Summit. 

The view from the summit cannot be surpassed even 
by that from Mt. Washington. Indeed, the isolation of 
Moosilauke from the other peaks gives it a decided 
advantage and unlike the higher peaks, there is less fog 
or cloud envelopment to hinder the view. On one side 
the green fields of the Connecticut Valley and the fertile 
farms of Vermont greet the vision, and far away the blue 
tints of the Adirondacks are visible. Turning, the peaks 
and ravines of New Hampshire and the valleys and mead- 
owlands of the Granite State blending with the pine for¬ 
ests of Maine present a picture in which pastoral charms 
and rugged beauty vie for ascendency. Toward the 
northeast, the beauty of the Franconia Mountains becomes 
enhanced by nearby observance, Mt. Kinsman in front 
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of Mt. Cannon gaze in admiration on the tower of 
Moosilauke. 

THE BENTON RANGE. 

To the west of Moosilauke, and very conspicuous from 
the delicious meadows which surround the medicinal 
springs and quiet streets of Newbury, is a range of moun¬ 
tains which are rarely visited and little known by the 
tourists to the White Hills. The peaks are Owl’s -Head, 
Blueberry Mountain, Hogsback, Sugar Loaf, and Black 
Mountain, the latter of which is 3,571 feet above the sea, 
higher than Kiarsarge or Chocorua, and fully as pictur¬ 
esque in its remarkable rocky architecture. It is worth 
the labor of the ascent for this alone, and again for its 
charming prospect over the meadows of the Connecticut 
and the western mountains. Sugar Loaf is a sharp aiguille 
of white rock, monumentally conspicuous from the long 
valley, and ascended by means of iron pins sunken in the 
ledges. 



CHAPTER XI. 


THE WESTERN AVENUE.—THE ROUTE FROM BOSTON TO LOWELL, 

CONCORD, AND LANCASTER, AND THE WEST SIDE OF THE 

MOUNTAINS. 

The western route to the mountains may be called the 
Merrimac Route, as those on the east merit the title of 
the Saco Routes. Entering the Merrimac Valley within 
15 miles of Boston, the western line follows its course for 
130 miles, and then crosses Warren Summit to the Con¬ 
necticut Valley. 

After leaving the huge terminal station of the Boston & 
Maine system, the train rumbles across one of the many 
caterpillar bridges which almost hide the Charles River, 
and then flies by several suburban stations in Somerville 
and Medford, and a long line of rural villages in the 
country beyond. At Lowell the broad Merrimack River 
is reached, and the factories which line the stream for a 
long distance attest how valuable is this mountain-born 
water to New England industries, and especially to “the 
Manchester of America.” This great manufacturing city 
of Lowell, which has long been one of the show-places of 
Massachusetts, is yet less than a century old. The water¬ 
power which is its reason for being is derived from the 
Pawtucket Falls, and flows down the front of the city in 
a canal l]/ 2 miles long, which debouches at the mouth uf 
the classic Concord River. 

Pleasant views are given over the Merrimac as the train 
hurries onward, soon entering New Hampshire, and paus¬ 
ing at the bright manufacturing city of Nashua, where 
about 24,000 people derive a comfortable living from the 
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mills which line the water-power of the Nashua River. 

Less than an hour more brings the traveller to the 
largest city in New Hampshire, Manchester, devoted to 
various manufactures, and sheltering 57,000 inhabitants 
under its many roofs. Both at Manchester and Lowell 
were large Indian towns, in ancient times, where the 
aborigines gathered to catch fish at the Amoskeag and 
Pawtucket Falls. Seventeen miles beyond, the train enters 
Concord, the capital of New Hampshire, a handsome city 
of 20,000 inhabitants, with an imposing State-House and 
other public buildings, and a line of profitable manufac¬ 
tures. In the suburbs are quarries of fine white granite, 
employing many men, and producing large quantities of 
stone every year. 

Beyond this snug little capital the line crosses the Mer- 
rimac, and approaches Canterbury, famous for its Shaker 
village; and Tilton, where the Methodists have a large 
seminary. Soon the gallant line of the Sandwich-Water- 
ville mountains comes into view, filling the north-eastern 
horizon with its broken lines. The Winnepesaukee River 
is followed closely, and its expansions of Sanbornton Bay 
and Lake Winnesquam, past the busy and prosperous 
towns of Laconia and Lake Village, and then over a kind 
of amphibious route, among bays and lagoons, and with 
the mountains rising more and more conspicuous. Weirs 
is the station where the neat little waves of Lake Winne¬ 
pesaukee are seen on the starboard quarter of the train, 
with the large steamboat, adequate to a transatlantic 
voyage, which braves the blustering seas towards Wolfe- 
borough. 

The train runs up, by the camp-meeting tabernacles, and 
along the shore of a protracted bay, to Meredith,—a quiet 
lake-village, with some claims as a summer-resort. For 
the next half-hour the route lies through a thinly-settled 
region, with occasional ponds visible in the woods, and 
along the horizon several famous mountains, with new 
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water, descending on the Pemigewasset meadows, the 
Franconia Range is seen, cutting the northern sky. 

At Plymouth there is much noise and bustle—half an 
hour for dinner—huge Pemigewasset Hotel on one side, 
river on the other—transfers of no end of baggage and 
tourists for Campton and the new Profile House—down- 
trains meeting Boston trains, as at a half-way house— 
bells, gongs, whistles, and a great clattering of knives and 
forks. 

After this refreshment the train rushes up the ancient 
Asquamchumauke Valley, along the meadows of Baker’s 
River, and strikes its first bona fide peak, on the right 
hand side, in Mount Stinson, which glowers over the vale 
of Rumney. The valley narrows to Wentworth, with its 
Noah’s-ark of a church, and Warren, a disintegrated rural 
village, not so handsome as it should be, in view of the 
natural beauties around it. Thence the line ascends the 
Mikaseota glen to Warren Summit, and soon takes down 
grades towards the Connecticut, with views of royal old 
Moosilauke on the right, and the fine peaks of the Benton 
Range. Past the venerable village of Haverhill,—known 
to searchers for vernal peace,—we bear away to the north, 
with very charming views across the Connecticut River 
and the luxuriant Oxbow Meadows, across which is the 
white hamlet of Newbury. 

At Woodsville and Wells River is the confluence of two 
rivers and several railroads, under the lee of rugged and 
woody Mount Gardner. Heavier by the accession of 
numerous tourists from the regions beyond the Hudson, 
the train runs up the Ammonoosuc Valley, environed by 
hills and woods, and giving slight glimpses of Bath and 
Lisbon, and a fuller view of Littleton. From Wing Road, 
a little way beyond, the main line continues on, by the 
immense lumber-mills of Whitefield, to Lancaster—of 
which we have before spoken—and Groveton Junction, 
where it intersects the Grand Trunk Railway. The 
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runs 20 miles into the mountains, following the deep and 
forest-covered valley of the Ammonoosuc, and terminating 
only at the base of Mount Washington. From Bethlehem 
Junction trains run up the heights to the Maplewood and 
the great summer resort of Bethlehem, 3 miles distant; 
and also to the new Profile House, down in Franconia 
Notch. Soon the white facade of the Twin-Mountain 
House is seen, on the left; and, as the Fabyan House is 
approached, the glorious line of the Presidential Range 
starts into the field of vision. 



CHAPTER XII. 


LAKE WINNEPESAUKE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS.—WOLFBOR- 

OUGH AND CENTRE HARBOR.—SQUAM LAKE.—THE ROUTES 

BY THE BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD. 

Winnepesaukee, wild, aboriginal, irregular and yet 
musical and sweet, the name is like its subject,—full of 
winsomeness, and far apart from the commonplace. No 
wonder that when some hair-brained sentimentalist said 
that the word meant “The Smile of the Great Spirit,” the 
people, far and wide, caught at the fancy, and all the 
Nipmuck lexicons in New England could not shake their 
faith. But the Indians were very practical folk, scanty in 
theology as well as in vesture, and their name, that which 
the lake now bears, signified simply “The Beautiful Water 
in a High Place.” Two tribes of red men dwelt on the 
shores, and feasted on the fish that they drew from the 
waters; and in later days the French partisans and Indian 
warriors from Canada made this a main route for attacks 
on the New England towns. New Hampshire erected a 
cordon of block-houses in the region in 1722; and in 1746 
Col. Atkinson’s regiment was cantonned in winter-quarters 
near the lake to serve as a bulwark against the Canadian 
forays. In good truth,, these valiant soldiers spent most 
of their time in hunting and fishing; and when the forces 
were disbanded many of the young militiamen hastened 
back into this primeval paradise to “locate.” So the 
settlement began, and their log-huts rose under the Ossi- 
pee Mountains, and along the bays of the southern shore. 
Winnepesaukee became a civilized lake, and the Indians, 
the fish, and the forests vanished. About the year 1835, 
steamboats appeared; and at a later day the genius of 
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the nineteenth century made the lake an annex of Lowell, 
by damming up its waters at the outlet, and raising the 
entire surface 6 feet higher,—or to 502 feet above the sea 
—to serve more acceptably as a mill-pond to draw upon 
when the Merrimac runs low. 

As now constituted, Winnepesaukee has about 70 square 
miles of water-area, with a greatest length of 19 miles, 
and a greatest width of 8$4 miles. The waters—every¬ 
where clear and transparent—are generally rather shallow 
though reaching a depth of 200 feet at certain points; and 
so feeble and inadequate are the influent streams, that 
wise men believe that there are many vast springs under¬ 
neath the waters. The inevitable “365 islands—one for 
every day in the year”—which the average American will 
try to find in the seas of Paradise, as he has already found 
them miraculously occurring at Lake George and Casco 
Bay, and in all other Yankee archipelagoes,—are also 
accredited to Winnepesaukee. Iconoclastic Science, how¬ 
ever, with her theodolites and compasses, sweeps the 
whole mimic sea with a net-work of bases and angles, 
baited with jpicy logarithms, and finds only 267 islands, 
islets, and rocks, covering 10 square miles,—3 of them 
having over 500 acres each, 7 more over 100, and 226 less 
than 10 each. Some of these contain large and excep¬ 
tionally productive farms, whose navy of horse-boats 
make an actual and practicl thing of horse-power as 
applied to navigation. But most of the islands are mere 
bits of turf and rock, a strip of beach, a group of bushes 
and arching trees, just large enough and lonely enough 
for the camps of summer-gypsies, and good for little ^lse. 
Encouraged by the laws of the Commonwealth of New 
Hampshire, and stimulated by the honorable fish-com¬ 
missioners, the finny population has largely increased, and 
now affords good sport and frequent dinners for the 
knights of the bending rod. 

En passant, it may be said, as a point d’appui for the 
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younger Henry James, that this bizarre Winnepesaukee 
has been endued with a certain couleur de rose by such 
belsesprits, connoisseurs, and litterateurs as Edward 
Everett, Star King, Dr. Bartol, Harriet Martineau, and 
Fredrika Bremer, who regarded it as a ckef-d’ oeuvre of 
nature, and, possibly par complaisance merely, compared 
it not unfavorably with ces autres in the transatlantic 
realms over which Cook’s tourists are driven. Mais, 
chacun a son gout. 

“I perceive that you have a great mynd to the lakes,” 
wrote Capt. Mason, speaking of this region, in 1634; and 
the Americans who have been thus inclined in the sub¬ 
sequent quarter-millennium may be numbered by hundreds 
of thousands. The exquisite limipidity of the waters, the 
graceful combinations of the multitude of islands, the 
sublimity of the mountains on all sides, afford sources of 
continual amazement, surprise, and delight, and give 
inspiring novelty to every voyage over the landlocked 
sea. The bays which retreat into the shadows of the 
Ossipee Mountains, interlocked w ithverdant shores and 
aicoved by bowery promontories, are accessible by smaller 
boats, and afford most delicious cruising-ground when 
wading cattle do not blockade the straits. 

The steam navy of Winnepesaukee is headed by the 
great vessel Mount Washingeton, competent to carry 1,000 
passengers, and the commodious Lady of the Lake, which 
is usually spoke of as The Lady. There are also several 
smaller excursion steamboats, a few fresh-water yachts, 
and a goodly flotilla of neat row-boats. 

There are four ports which rejoice in the visits of the 
larger vessels: Alton Bay, Wolfeborough, Centre Har¬ 
bor, and the Weirs. Alton Bay, 96 miles from Boston 
and 28 miles from Dover by the Boston & Maine Rail¬ 
road, is the nearest point to Boston (all-rail, and no 
change of cars), and is reached from Dover, on the main 
line by ascending the Cocheco Valley, and passing through 
Rochester and Farmington. The Mount Washington 



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leaves Alton Bay and its summer-hotel and camp-meeting 
grounds, on arrival of the Boston train, and runs down 
the long and river-like fiord of Merry-Meeting Bay for 
5 miles, after which she swings out on the open lake, and 
soon reaches Wolfeborough. 

Wolfeborough is the terminus of a branch of the East¬ 
ern Division of the Boston & Maine Railroad, 51 miles 
from North Conway. 

The direct course to Centre Harbor is 20 miles long, 
and leads through the broadest parts of the lake, between 
the islands, and with glorious views of the environing 
mountains and peninsulas. Conspicuous on one side are 
the tall, twin peaks of Mount Belknap, or Gunstock, with 
their light-colored sienite crests; the Ossipee Range, 
covered with dark forests, lifts its long wall on the 
right; and in front swell the characteristic mountains of 
Sandwich and Waterville, overlooked, at one point, for 
about 15 minutes, by the remote and stately peaks of 
Mounts Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Pleasant. One 
by one, group by group, the islands float swiftly by, the 
shifting scenes of a grander tableau than human orchestra 
ever played before. The limpid water flows dreamily 
around these fair Atlantides, and Percival should sing 
here his “On thy fair bosom, silver lake,” where Whittier 
has averred that “The lake is white with lotus-flowers.” 
Amid this peace of air and sea the course lies onward, 
and up the narrow northern bay to the white hamlet of 
Centre Harbor. This is the last port of the Mount 
Washington; but The Lady continues on to the Weirs, 
which is 106 miles from Boston, and the point where the 
Boston & Maine Railroad meets the lake boats. The 
Mount Washington connects at Long Island with a 
steamboat for Lake Village and Weirs. 

WOLFEBOROUGH. 

The active manufacturing village of Wolfeborough is 
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shore, along the slopes of two hills which decline towards 
the little mills and shops near the outlet of Lake Went¬ 
worth. The Pavilion is the great hotel, with wide lawns 
sloping to the water, and rooms for 300 guests. There 
are several other hotels here; and boarding-houses and 
farm-houses enough to accommodate many hundreds of 
visitors, among the adjacent hills. The usual pastime of 
driving about the country-roads, and getting views of near 
and distant scenery, is varied here by water-excursions, 
trips up and down the lake on the steamboats, and more 
independent and laborious journeys in row-boats and 
yachts.. Only a mile distant is Lake Wentworth, a very 
pretty lake indeed, 4 miles long, sprinkled with islands, 
and bearing on its shores the remains of Wentworth 
House, the feudal mansion of Sir John Wentworth before 
the Revolutionary War. 

Copple Crown is a mountain 2,100 feet high, 6^4 miles 
from Wolfeborough, a mile of which is oh an easy upland 
path; and this forms one of the favorite excursions for 
city-folks. The view includes the great lake on the north, 
and numerous other glittering sheets of water in Eastern 
New Hampshire; with such mountains as Belknap, 
Moosilauke, Passaconaway, Carrigan, Chocorua, Moat, 
Washington, Carter Dome, Kiarsarge, Ossipee, the Un- 
canoonucs, Wachuset, Monadnock and Kearsarge. 

Tumble-Down Dick is a pasture-covered hill a mile 
from Copple Crown, crossed by a road, and affording a 
very extensive view over the lake. The careful chronicler 
of Wolfeborough should also describe the charms of the 
Short Square and the Long Square, and dwell on the 
delights of the Devil’s Den and the drives to Alton Bay 
and to Ossipee Falls. We shall leave many a terra in¬ 
cognita in Carroll County, for adventurous wheels and 
keels to explore. 

CENTRE HARBOR. 

Quite the daintiest and sweetest of the maritime ports 
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mountain fold,” at the end of the long northern bay, 553 
feet above the sea, and close to some of the finest scenery 
in America. There is a little church here, a country-store, 
a telegraph office, a line of pretty summer-villas, a large 
hotel and a small one, and a dozen or so of rural boarding¬ 
houses, with delightfully low prices. The railroads are far 
enough away, and the only regular line of communication 
by land is the great mail-stage which rumbles away over 
the picturesque road to West Ossipee, once a day. The 
long verandas c ,ie Senter House, cloistered by vener¬ 
able elms, look out down the lake for full 20 miles; and 
below them is a flotilla of white pleasure-boats, in which 
daring navigators seek the distant coasts of Beaver Island 
and Moultonborough Neck. Those who prefer to ramble 
may reach the top of Sunset Hill or Centre Harbor Hill 
in a few minutes from the village, and overlook the man¬ 
ifold beauties of the lake-country and the environing 
mountains. The drive called Around the Ring, not more 
than 5 miles long, gives most fascinating views of Red 
Hill and Squam Lake; and the road to Meredith, 5 miles 
westward, reveals new phases of the lake-scenery. 

In a word, and without dissembling, Centre Harbor 
would be a little suburb of Paradise, but for the fact that 
in August it is sometimes warm—even hot—possibly not 
more so than North Conway or Plymouth, but running 
higher into the Fahrenheit eighties than Bethlehem or 
Jaskson ever do. 


RED HILL. 

A huge mound of gray sienite, 3 miles long, and 2,043 
feet high, Red indeed in autumn, this so-called hill rises 
nobly over the Sandwich plains, and the view from its 
crest has won enthusiastic praises from all manner of 
visitors, for a hundred years, ranging in expression from 
Timothy Dwight’s dry rhapsodies to Starr King’s or Isaac 
Hill’s flowery exuberance. Dwight said that it repaid the 
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Hill, that a more charming and delightsome view is not 
perhaps to be seen in America; Harriet Martineau, that it 
was “altogether beautifulN. P. Rogers, that it is the 
perfection of earthly prospects and defies competion, as it 
transcends description; Dr. C. T. Jackson, that it is the 
most beautiful panorama which this country affords. The 
road is about 13 miles from Centre Harbor to the point 
where the Red Hill trail begins, and the path is nearly V/ 2 
mile long. If it is perferred to go up on horseback, sure¬ 
footed mountain-horses may be taken from the base of the 
path. The view includes the superb sea of islands on the 
south, Wachuset, Monadnock, Kearsarge, Cardigan, the 
lovely Squam Lake, Moosilauke, Sandwich Dome, Tripyra¬ 
mid, Whiteface, Chocorua, Kiarsarge, Pleasant (near Se- 
bago Lake), and all the hamlets and lakelets of the sur¬ 
rounding country for many leagues. Without endorsing 
the inordinate praises just -cited, it may easily be main¬ 
tained that this is the finest prospect in all the lake- 
country. 

Ossipee Park is 10 miles from Centre Harbor, near the 
obscure lake-port of Melvin Village. Here, are the 
famous Falls of Song (the ancient Ossipee Falls). Over 
the glen towers the forest-clad Mount Shaw, 2,361 feet 
high. 


ASQUAM LAKE. 

There is nowhere in our New England more beautiful 
scenery than that which is found around this sequestered 
lake. Nowhere else does Nature display such fascinating 
variety, broad highland waters, exquisite islands, frowning 
mountains, sylvan shores; nor is there any other locality 
more free from the disfigurements of humaninterpolations 
or the meretricious additions of bourgeois taste. The 
Asquam House is a new hotel, on Shepard Hill, near the 
lake, and overlooking it for many picturesque miles. 

The name Squam or Asquam is the Indian word for 
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of euphony) on the part of the red sponsors. The lake is 
6 miles long, and covers more than 15 square miles, with 
deep bays and covers, and a growing population of vigor¬ 
ous fish. There are 16 islands rising from this crystal 
sea, some of them large enough to be used as pastures, 
while others are hardly more than great green bouquets, 
tied at their bases wkh azure ribbon (as Chateaubriand 
said of the Hudson Highlands). A venerable antiquary of 
the Massachusetts Historical Society said, a century ago, 
and truly and quaintly enough, that if this lake had been 
in Europe, “many a tourist would have tasked his imagina¬ 
tion for sonorous epithets to describe its scenery, many 
an artist would have prepared his softest tints to paint its 
beauties, and many a poet would have strung his lyre to 
sound its praises.” 


THE WEIRS. 

Where the Boston & Maine Railroad runs near deep¬ 
water channels on Lake Winnepesaukee, and delivers 
passengers to the steamboats, a pretty little summer city 
has risen, with several large hotels, and the highly diversi¬ 
fied streets of a camp-meeting ground. The latter indeed, 
so far as its site is concerned, is largely dowered with 
sweetness and light, insomuch that it has allured even the 
Unitarians, least Methodistic of all sects, to establish here 
a downright camp-meeting, where the voices of liberal 
divines and Arian polemics have resounded through the 
groves, and astonished the autochthonous birds. The 
Methodists gather here more regularly, and in greater 
numbers, and enjoy nature and religion together, as is 
their wont. 

Four times a day the steamboat leaves this theological 
port, to run to Centre Harbor and Wolfborough, affording 
most convenient opportunities for marine excursions. It 
should be stated that the name of the station is derived 
from the fact that the ancient Indian tribes built long 
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©ut, and placed nets here and there, at the openings, 
wherein they used to catch immense numbers of shad and 
salmon, at the times of their annual migrations. These 
weirs remained for many years after their builders had 
been exterminated, and bequeathed their name to the 
locality. 

ALTON BAY. 

The most southerly point of the lake, not far from the 
rural village of Alton, has been a steamboat-port since 
1832, and is now the point where a branch of the Boston 
and Maine Railroad terminates, and whence the great 
steamer Mount Washington sails. Here the Adventists 
and the Spiritualists have their summer camp-meeting 
grounds, and discuss matters which even a guide-book 
may gravely smile at. 

There is also a secular hotel here, where fair cheer is 
found; and the scenery and fishing in the vicinity are alike 
good. Numerous ponds, or small lakes, are scattered 
through the adjacent towns, the best of which are Merry- 
Meeting Lake, 10 long miles around, and Lougee Pond, 
on the road to Gilmanton Iron Works. There are exceed¬ 
ingly beautiful views from the summits of Sheep Mountain 
and Prospect Hill, and from the roads leading over their 
ridges. Twelve miles from the Bay, over a hilly road, yet 
one which gives very noble prospects, is the path which 
leads in V/z mile to the top of Mount Belknap, 2,394 feet 
high, and commanding a view which has but few rivals in 
this cluster of Yankee States. The most direct route to 
Mount Belknap is from Laconia, the large and beautiful 
village on Lake Winnesquam, 7 miles distant. 




CHAPTER XIII. 


BETHEL.—SHELBURNE.—GORHAM.—BERLIN FALLS.—THE ROUTE 
FROM PORTLAND TO THE NORTHERN SIDE OF THE MOUN¬ 
TAINS. 

THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY. 

This exceedingly Anglican route, with its headquarters 
in London, and its arms reaching from the Lower St. 
Lawrence to the Great Lakes, has a pleasant route which 
leads from Portland to the mountain resorts near the up¬ 
per Androscoggin, in about 70 miles. The line lies through 
a long line of Casco-Bay townships, with occasional 
glimpses of the bay itself; and then turns upward into the 
country, passing the pretty village of New Gloucester, and 
the station where stages await passengers for the great 
hotel at Poland Spring, 4 miles off the line. Then the 
valley of the Little Androscoggin is followed up, while 
the landscape becomes more rolling and diversified. Paris 
Hill appears on the right, a proud little county-capital 
crowning a high eminence; and beyond the ensuing wilder¬ 
ness, another charming bit of scenery appears, at the sta¬ 
tion of Bryant’s Pond. The purgatorial woods of the 
water-shed are soon passed, and the train swings down 
into the rich pastoral region of the Androscoggin Valley. 

BETHEL. 

A dignified and well-to-do old village on the Andros¬ 
coggin River, near the great bend where the Presidential 
Range forces the stream to swing from south to east, 
Bethel had natural advantages and early influences as a 
summer resort which later years have failed to adequately 
develop. It is peculiarly an agricultural settlement, with 

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beautiful intervales along the river, rich in various 
products, and adding a sweet pastoral charm to the land¬ 
scape. The low mountains in the vicinity are mostly 
covered with pasturage, and lack the grim savagery of the 
peaks about the Saco and the Ammonoosuc. There are 
great resources for drives, for the country is open, and 
affords many easy and comparatively level roads, extend¬ 
ing into the western townships of Maine, and even into 
various “Grants” and “Locations” where, as yet, the 
academy-bells have not sounded, nor rival churches in¬ 
stalled brown-handed deacons. These easy buck-board 
routes lead to oints not yet familiar to the Cook’s tourists 
on the main avenues of travel,—to the Albany Basins, the 
Rumford Falls, the Grafton Notch, and the Screw-Auger 
Falls; and to many other charming nooks which even this 
multivagous Guide-book knows not of. The nearer view¬ 
points are Sunset Rock and Paradise Hill, and those more 
remote are Mount Abram and Mount Caribou, which look 
upon the great Presidential Range, across the screen of the 
Moriah-Carter ridges. 

Bethel has two cosey hotels, on the quiet village-green 
nearly a mile from the railroad-station; and a dozen sum¬ 
mer boarding-houses, on the shady old streets, and along 
the riverward meadows. 

SHELBURNE AND THE LEAD-MINE BRIDGE. 

The town of Shelburne, where many summer-guests 
abide in quiet farmhouses, consists of a sinuous valley, 
along the Androscoggin, floored with green intervales, rich 
in grain and grass, bordered on north and south by un¬ 
broken ranges of tall mountains. Near the railroad-station 
is the least fragment of a hamlet, with a post-office and an 
old inn, over which rises Mount Winthrop; and on the 
other side of the river is Gates Cottage, from which the 
great northern peaks are so nobly visible. A path leads 
thence to Dream Lake and the crest of Mount Baldcap, 



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which overlooks the tumultuous wilderness towards Lake 
Umbagog, and also the coronal peaks of all this region. 

The Lead-Mine Bridge is less than five miles from Gor¬ 
ham, where the road crosses the Androscoggin, and leads 
toward Gates Cottage. From the bridge itself is gained 
one of the most famous views of the peaks of Washington, 
Adams, and Madison, directly over the bright rippling 
waters and bouquet-like islands of the river. This 
aesthetic pilgrimage should be made towards the latter 
part of a clear summer afternoon, when the day is well 
aired, and the alchemy of the sunshine has transformed 
meadow and hill into forms and colors of ideal beauty. 

In such contracted space, we cannot tell the legends of 
Moses Rock, of Granny Stalbird’s Ledge, of Hark Hill, or 
recount the mediaeval history of Shelburne and the Indian 
forays. Nor can we speak of the prolongation of the nar¬ 
row valley eastward through Gilead, mountain-walled and 
abounding in game, settled in ancient times by religious 
enthusiasts from Massachusetts, and down to this day 
without even a hamlet in which to group its sturdy 
hill-men. 

GORHAM. 

The time was when Gorham stood as the chief of the 
mountain-resorts, and although that is long past, there is 
yet much to attract hither the lover of natural scenery. It 
has railroad repair-shops of many-Hibernian power; but 
Starr King will never more write his inspired chapters in 
its hotel; and the goodly company of old-time guides are 
now (let us hope) upon the Delectable Mountains. The 
village is 812 feet above the sea, standing in that elbow¬ 
like glen which is formed by the Androscoggin River, 
rushing from the Rangeley Lakes straight towards Lake 
Winnepesaukee, but abruptly blockaded, and thrown off at 
a right angle with its former course, by the sturdy foot¬ 
hills of the Presidential Range. Here the Rangeley waters 
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King’s Ravine, and the Peabody River, which Grains the 
Great Gulf. 

There is no other village so near as this to the chief 
peaks of the White Mountains, but they are hidden from 
view by the shaggy hills which impend on the south. The 
imposing masses and picturesque crests of the Moriah and 
Carter Ranges are seen from the streets, close at hand; 
and a few minutes’ walk leads to points which view the 
stately forms of Washington and his staff. On the west¬ 
ward are the sunset curtains of the Crescent and Pilot 
Ranges, filling miles of wilderness between Gorham and 
Lancaster; on the north, closest of all to the village, is 
Mount Hayes, the guide around which the river wheels, 
and the outpost of that range of peaks which runs off into 
the woods to lofty Goose Eye. 

It should be remembered that the old Alpine House has 
been replaced by a new and spacious modern hotel, bearing 
the same name, and continuing the same traditions; and 
also that the Gorham House is a comfortable old-time inn, 
near the centre of the village. Both these hotels have 
many horses, who pass the summer is drawing parties of 
tourists over the meadow-roads, or through to Summit 
House, or over the famous Cherry-Mountain road. For 
it is chiefly as a centre of delightful drives that Gorham 
is famous; and from their courses the intervales of the 
Androscoggin are combined in infinite variety with the 
blue calms and while turmoils of the river, and with the 
majestic forms of the great mountains. 

A path begins at the end of the queer little suspension- 
bridge, and ascends to the top of Mount Hayes in about 
two miles. The main features of the view from this point 
are the peaks of Washington, Adams, and Madison, within 
from 8 to 10 miles, and splendidly grouped for picturesque 
effects, Adams and Madison rising in grand flowing lines 
from the valley, and looking across to the bold opposing 
heights of Carter and Moriah. In contrast with this 
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coggin meadows, stretching away for many miles, jewelled 
by the diamond and lapid lazuli of the river, and flecked 
with white farmhouses. 

MOUNT MORIAH. 

Mount Moriah, 4,000 feet high, is accessible from Gor¬ 
ham by a bridle-path about 5 miles long, the same over 
which Sarr King and his Illuminati used to ramble, and 
recently renewed and cleared by the United States Coast 
Survey. Half-way up is the little peak of Mount Surprise, 
which commands such a fascinating view of the Pinkham 
Notch, the Presidential Peaks, and the savage forests be¬ 
tween. Then ensues a charming walk through the dwind¬ 
ling upland groves, by venerable mossy cliffs and up over 
breathless ridges, until the bare crest is gained. The Green 
Mountains of Vermont, the Kennebec peaks, the gray sum¬ 
mits of Maine and Lower Canada, fill the distant field; 
and close at hand are the vast spires of the Presidential 
Range, cleft by profound ravines, and closing the west 
with fretted lines of alpine ledges. 

Randolph Hill is something over five miles from Gor¬ 
ham, and is reached by driving out on the Jefferson road, 
to a place called Scater’s, and ascending thence by a 
branch hill-road to the right, high on to a spur of Ran¬ 
dolph Mountain. From this silent and sequestered spot, 
one gains a very impressive view of Madison and Adams, 
lifting their gray spires in airy aspiration, far into the blue 
sky, with the scars of ages of storms and slides riving 
their weary forms. Below them and within open the 
cavernous depths of King’s Ravine, paved with the ruins 
of dismantled ridges, and sheltering masses of profound 
shadow. 

BERLIN FALLS. 

About six miles from Gorham, up the valley, is the point 
where the Androscoggin indulges in its first notable epi¬ 
sode of passion, and preludes its later adventures at Rum- 




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ford, Lewiston, and Brunswick. Here the outpour of the 
Umbagog and Rangeley Lakes and the distant Magalloway 
region, marches swiftly through the Caudine Forks of 
imprisoning rocky cliffs, descending a hundred feet within 
in a mile of advance, in white and boiling rapids, the 
domes of dark water fringed by frettings of foam, and 
battering the boulders in a determined way which insures 
victory in time. A foot-bridge crosses the chasm from 
cliff to cliff, nearly over the deepest plunge of the stream, 
and affords a vantage-ground from which to view the 
varying phases of the falls, above and below. The drive 
thence to Milan Corner is about eight miles long, and af¬ 
fords some famous views of the White Mountains, which 
have been often reproduced by artists. 

The Alpine Cascades are about four miles from Gorham, 
and are approached by crossing the Androscoggin on a 
light foot-bridge, in full sight of a picturesque cataract. 
The visitor then pays a toll at the Novanglian chalet near 
the beginning of the path, and perchance buys also peanuts, 
gum-drops, and cheroots. The ledges and crags on the 
mountain-side beyond afford a very eligible site for a 
waterfall; and after heavy rains the Alpine Cascades are 
well worthy of a visit. 



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A LIST OF THE 

HOTELS AND BOARDING-HOUSES 

IN THE 

WHITE MOUNTAINS AND IN THE WINNEPESAUKEE 
AND SEBAGO REGIONS 


With their Proprietors' Names , the Number of Guests 
Accommodated, and the Rates by 
the Day and Week. 


Revised 1911. 


ALTON BAY. 

Houses and Proprietors. Capacity 

Hillside Cottage, Mrs. I. F. Reynolds, 20 
New Winnepesaukee House, 

F. H. McAlpine, 50 

Sunny Side Cottage, W. H. Reynolds, 25 

BARTLETT. 

The Howard House, W. N. Irish, 75 2.50 up 

Garland House, F. E. Garland, 25 2.00 

Cedarcroft, Mrs. A. L. Russell, 25 2.00 

Maple Cottage, G. S. Chesley, 25 2.00 

George’s Inn, Mrs. 0. H. George, 15 2.00 

(See also Lower Bartlett.) 

BATH 

Ammonoosuc House, C. Burnham, 50 1.50 7.00 

Old Stone House, Mrs. E. P. Hutchins, 15 1.50 7.00 


10.00 to 12.00 
14.00 

10 . 00 - 12.00 
8 . 00 - 10.00 
8.00 up 


Per Day. Per Week . 
1.50 8.00-10.00 

2.00-3.50 10.00-20.00 

2.00 8.00-10 00 


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BERLIN 


Houses and Proprietors. Capacity. 

Per Day. Per Week. 

Berlin House, C. J. Calvin, 

100 

2.50-3.00 

14.00-17.50 

New Revere House, F. T. McNally, 

150 

2.50-3.00 

14.00-20.00 

BETHLEHEM. 



Altamonte House, I. Lucher, 

100 

3.00 

18.00 up 

Arlington House, F. C. Abbee, 

CO 

3.00-4.00 

17.50-25.00 

Bellevue House, D. S. Phillips, 

00 

2.00-2.50 

8.00-12.00 

Bethlehem House, J. H. A. Bruce, 

75 

2.00-2.50 

10.00-16.00 

Bethmer Inn, Mr. Blair, 

50 

2.00 up 

10.00 up 

Broadview, G. L. Gilmore, 

30 

2.00 

8.00-12.00 

Central House, W. J. Lewis, 

7 5 

2.00-3.00 

12.00 up 

Elm House, R. M. Hodgdon, 

40 

2.00 

10.00-12.00 

Farm Cottage, Mrs. L. M. Phillips, 

3 5 

2.50 

9.00-15.00 

Gardner Cottage, R. H. Gardner, 

15 

1.25 

7.00-9.00 

Highland House, E. A. Long, 

100 

3.00 up 

15.00 up 

Hillside Inn, L. T. Clawson, 

100 

2.50-3.00 

14.00 up 

Idlewilde, H. C. Day, 

40 

1.50-2.00 

9.00-12.00 

Maplehurst, Wm. A. Rowe & Co., 

75- 

2.50 up 

12.00 up 

Maplewood Hotel*, T t T n-n 
Maplewood Inn,* L - H ‘ Cllle ^" 

400 

5.00 up 

30.00 up 

130 

3.00-4.00 

17.50 up 

Mountain View House, I. A. Taylor, 25 

1.50 

8.00-10.00 

Park Cottage, B. Tucker, 
Strawberry Hill House, 

15 

3.00 

20.00 up 

H. C. Barrett, Manager, 

100 

2.50-3.00 

16.00 up 

The Agassiz House, N. Macmillan, 

150 

2.50-3.50 

14.00-25.00 

The Alpine, W. S'. Dunham, 

80 

3.50 up 

21.00 up 

The Columbus, R. H. Buckler, 

80 

1.50 up 

10.00 up 

The Gramercy, E. Stimpson, 

5'0 

2.00-2.50 

8.00-18.00 

The Mt. Washington, R.N. Gordon, 

100 

3.50 


The New Howard, Chas.Sutherland, 

100 

3.00 up 

17.00-50.00 

The Park View, H. F. Hardy, 

The Sinclair, Sinclair Hotel Co., 

125 

2.00-3.00 

10.00-20.00 

Harrington & McAuliff, Mgrs., 

300 

4.00 up 

Special 

The Reynolds, M. Reynolds, 

50 

2.00 up 

10.00 up 

The Sunny Side, Mrs.F.M.Gardner, 

25 

1.50 

9.00 up 

The Uplands, F. H. Abbott, 

250 

4.00 up 

28.00 up 

Turners’ Tavern, J. H. Turner, 

75 

3.00-3.50 

14.00-25.00 

The Highland, E. A. Long, 

100 

3.00 up 

15’. 00 up 

(*Located and P. 0. at Maplewood N. 

PI.) 

BETHEL. ME. 



Locke Farm, Miss M. E. Locke, 

40 

2.00 

8.00-12.00 

Prospect Hotel, F.R.Green & Son, 

100 

2.00-4.00 

12.00-25.00 

Mountain Grove Hse.,H.R.Godwin, 

25 

1.50 

8.00-12.00 

Maple Inn, W. W. Kilgore, 

75 

2.50 

14.00-18.00 



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BELMONT. 


Houses and Proprietors. Capacity. 

Per Day. 

Per Week. 

Bay View, Stephen Taylor, 

50 


8.00-10.00 

Belmont House, Mary E. Leavorouer, 

20 


6.00 

Forest House, Frank A. Rundlett, 

35 


5.00-8.00 

Currier’s Hotel, J. P. Currier, 

40 

2.00 

5.00-12.00 

Highland House, C. W. Knowles, 

12 

1.25 

8.00-10.00 

BRIDGTON, ME. 



The Bridgton, Geo. A. Cabbott, 150 

2.50-3.50 

10.00-17.5'0 

The Cumberland, L. A. Jack, 

75 

2.50 

Apply 

Lake View House, C. T. Plummer, 

80 

2.50 

Apply 

Stoneleigh, Lightfoot Bros., 

75 

2.50 

15.00 up 

Pleasant Mountain House, C.E.Cobb, 

40 

3.00 

15.00-24.00 

Highland Lake, R. A. Dodge, 

30 

1.75 

7.00-10.00 

Mountain View, H. D. Morrison, 

25 

On application 

Overlook Cottage, C. M. Trufant, 

25 

2.00 

10.00-12.00 

Tarry-a-while, F. H. Abbott, 

35 

2.00 

12.00-15.00 

Mead Cottage, Thos. F. Mead, 

15 

1.25 

6.00-8.00 

Lakeside, Mrs. L. M. Harris, 

25 

2.00 

8.00-10.00 

Ingalls Farm, 0. B. Ingalls, 

12 

On application 

Everest, Geo. W. Rounds, 

20 

2.00 

8.00-10.00 

Tanglewood, Irving Hibbard, 

40 

1.50 

9.00 

Ingalls Hill Farm, Linnie M. Libby, 

10 

1.50 

7.00 

Sunny Rest Cottage, H.E.Farrington, 

8 


7.00 

Aurora, Rev. G. W. Barber, 

12 

1.00 

6.00 

Bridgton Tavern, J. Merrill, 

35 

2.00-2.50 

12.00-18.00 

Burnell Summer Home, J.E.Burnell, 

25 

1.75 

10.00 

Hillside House, G. A. Potts, 

20 

1.50 

9.00-10.00 

(See also No. Bridgton, Harrison 

and Waterford ) 


BRETTON WOODS. 


New Mount Pleasant, 


C. J. Dunphy, 

300 

5.00-6.00 

28.00 up 

The New Mount Pleasant Cottage, 

50 

4.00 

24.50 up 

The Mount Washington, 

D. J. Trudeau, Mgr., 

600 

6.00-7.00 

35.00 up 

Bretton Arms, 

T. B. Bemis, Mgr., 

100 

3.00 up 

18.00-21.00 

(Alt lot els in sight from station .— 

Carriage Connection.) 

BRUNSWICK SPRINGS. 


Rowell Cottage—Two miles from station, 

, 15 

2.00 

10.00 

CAMPTON. 



Sunset Hi 1 House, T. E. Sanborn, 

60 

2.00 

8.00-14.00 

Hillside House, Sawyer & Morrill, 

50 

1.50 

7.00-10.00 

Green Mountain Farm, A. S. Brown, 

25 

1.00-1.25 

7.00-10.00 



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CENTER HARBOR. 


Houses and Proprietors. Capacity. 

Per Day. 

Per Week . 

Rock-Mere House, C. W. Goodwin, 

25 

1.00 

7.00 

The Colonial, W. A. Maclean, 

250 

2.50-5.00 

12.50-30.00 

Moulton House, Emery & Hill, 

50 

2.50-3.50 

12.00-17.50 

Lake House, G. A. Simpson, 

20 

2.00 

8.00-10.C0 

The Pines, G. Sargent, 

18 

1.50 

8.00-10.00 

Hanson Farm, C. A. Hanson, 

40 

1.00 

7.00 

Grove Hill Farm, C. S. Hill, 

16 

1.50 

7.00-9.00 

Fairmount Cottage, Mrs. M. A. Mason, 

25 

1.00 

7.CO 

The Majestic, M. V. B. Goodwin, 

25 

1.50 

9.00 

Cluster Cove, A. A. Goodrich, 

30 

2.00 

10.00-12.00 

Brooklyn House, G. H. Jackson, 

20 

1.25 

6.00-8.00 

The Beacon, Mrs. J. Hessman, 

25 

2.00 

8.00 

Kanasatka Inn, Mrs. M. A. Sanborn, 

35 

1.50 

8.00-10.00 

The Garnet Inn, A. A. Bennett, 

40 

1.50-2.50 

9.00-15.00 

CHOCORUA. 



The Maplehurst, F. H. Carle, 

30 

1.50 

8.00-10.00 

Chocorua Hotel, M. E. Robertson, 

100 

1.50 

8.00-10.00 

{Stagefrom West Ossipee.) 


COLEBROOK. 



New Colebrook House, C. E. Hartshorn, 

60 

2.00-3.00 

8.00-14.00 

Monadnock House, J. T. Piper, 

100 

2.00-3.00 

10.00 up 

The Hampshire Inn, F. G. Parsons, 

ICO 

3.00-4.00 

17.50 up 

Camp Diamond, H. S. Little, 

80 

3.00 

16.00 up 

Sunnyside Cottage, J. W. Spencer, 

8 

1.00 

5.00 

CONWAY. 



Conway House, L. L. Blood & Son, 

125 

2.00 

10.00-15.00 

Merrill House, 0. W. Merrill, 

25 

1.00 

6.00-8.00 

Pequawket House, D. E. Pendexter, 

40 

1.50 

6.00-8.00 

Pine Grove House, G. Allard, 

30 

1.00 

5.00-6.00 

Range View Farm, Samuel Littlefield, 

10 

1.00 

6.00-7.00 

Mountain View House, G. Allard, 

30 

1.00 

5.00-6.00 

CONWAY CENTER. 



Grove House, L. D. Mills, 

24 

1.50 

6.00-8.00 

CRAWFORD 

HOUSE. 



Crawford House, Barron Hotel Oo., 
W. A. Barron, Pres., 

350 

5.00 up 

24.50 up 

Qrawford House Annex, Barron 
Hotel Oo., W. A. Barron, Pres., 


4.50 up 

24.50 up 



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D1XVILLE NOTCH. 


Houses and Proprietors. Capacity. Per Day. 

Per Week. 

Hie Balsams, Dixville Notch Corp., 

400 

K 50 ur> 

28.00 up 

(R. R. Station, Colebrook. 

Distance , 

jo miles- 

— Coach.) 

EAST TILTON. 



Lakeside House, H. H. Bennett, 

100 

2.00 

8.00-10.00 

Maplewood Farm, Mrs. M. II. Bennett, 

40 

1.50 

8.00-10.00 

The Elms, W. H. H. Rollins, 

35 

1.00 

5.00-7.00 

Maple Grove Farm, F. A. Currier, 

30 

1.00 

6.00-8.00 

EAST WAKEFIELD. 



Mirror Lake Farm, W. A. Davis, 

28 

1.C0 

6.00-8.00 

Sunset Cottage Farm, T. McAbby, 

35 

1.C0 

6.00-7.oe 

Mountain House,* T. E. Mitchell, 

25 

1.25 

6.00-8.00 

Maple Cottage Farm,* S. A. Hill, 

15 

1.50 

6.00-8.00 

Maple Grove Farm,* D. W. Libby, 

18 

1.00 

5.00.7.00 

Shady Nook Farm, Mrs. C. W. Howe, 

75 

1.00-1.50 

7.00-10.00 

( * r. O. East Wakefield Depot.) 




ERROL. 



Umbagog House, N. R. Leach, 

42 

2.00 

10.00 


(Stage from Colebrook through Qixville Notch.) 


FABYANS. 

Fabyan House, 

Barron, Merrill & Barron, 400 

Fabyan House Annex, 

Barron, Merrill & Barron, 30 

White Mountain House, 

Sheehe & Seymour, 150 


5.00 up 25.00 up 

2.00-3.00 14.00-21.00 

2.50 up 12.50 up 


FRANCONIA. 


Forest Hill Hotel and Cottages, 
G. P. Baldwin, 

Mountain View House, 

Mrs. J. H.. Knight, 

Mt. Jackson House, Mrs. A. Grimes, 
Mt. Lafayette House, J. W. Smith, 
Spooner Farm, II. E. Spooner, 
Whitney Farm, Mrs. F. P. Whitney, 
Pleasant View Farm, H. S. Bowles, 


150 

4.00 up 

20.00 up 

25 

2.50 

10.00-16.00 

20 

1.50 

7.00-9.00 

50 

2.50 

8.00-12.00 

20 

1.25-2.00 

8.00-12X0 

25 

1.50 

6.00-8.00 

40 

1.00 

6.00-7.00 


(See also Sugar Hill.) 


FRANCONIA NOTCH. 


New Profile House, 

C. H. Greenleaf, Pres., 


500 


Flume House, S.H.Bigelow, Pres., 100 


6.00 

4.00 


35.00 up 
17.50 up 



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FRYEBURG, ME. 


Houses and Proprietors. Capacity. 

Per Day. 

Per Week. 

Evans’ Cottage, A. PI. Evans, 

30 

1.50 

7.00-10.0,0 

Alumni House, Mrs. B. Page, 

30 

1.50 

7.00-10.00 

The Argunot, Mrs. E. Thoms, 

40 

2.5'0-3.00 

12.00-15.00 

McKeen House, Mrs. C. McKeen, 

20 

1.50 wp 

7.00-10.00 

Frye House, Miss B, F. Buzzell, 

16 

1.50-2.00 

7.00-12.00 

GILEAD 

, ME. 



Bennett’s Tavern, J. W. Bennett, 



7.00 

Cloverdale Farm, E. R. Bennett, 



5.00 

Mrs. D. C. Sary, 

20 


5.00-7.00 

GORHAM. 



Alpine House, G. D. Stratton, 

150 

2.00-3.00 

10.00-15.00 

Randolph Hill House, C. E. Lowe, 

ICO 

1.50 

6.00-10.00 

Mt. Madison H'se., C. W. Chandler, 

2C0 

3.00-3 50 

18.00-25.00 

Grove Cottage, Chas. E. Philbrocks, 

25 

1.50 

6.00-10.00 

Mt. View House, M. T. Mahoney, 

7 5 

1.50 

7.00-10.00 

Willis House, J. R. Evans, 

50 

2.50 

10.50-12.00 

Ravine House, S. M. Watson, 

75 

1.50 

6.00-10.00 

Mt. Orescent House, J. H. Boothmam 

, 60 

2.50 

12.00-16.00 

GROVETON. 



Melcher House, E. E. Tibbetts, 

75 

2 CO 

7.00-14.00 

Eagle Hotel, I. G. Giberson, 

40 

2.00 

4.00-10.00 

Union House, D. J. McConnell, 

20 

1.00 

3.50-4.00 

Groveton Tavern, F. W. Tibbetts, 

50 

2.00 

10.50 

GUILDHALL, VT. 



Central House, 

25 


3.00-5.00 

HARRISON, ME. 



Elms Inn, David Kneeland, 

50 

2.00 

10.00-14.00 

Crystal Lake House, J. C. Edgerley, 

SO 

2.00 

7.00-12.00 

Floral Lawn Farm, W. H. Briggs, 

8 

On application 

Lakeside, Mrs. Joseph McAllister, 

1.50-2.00 

7.00-8.00 

Coffin’s Hotel, W. D. Coffin, 

20 

2.00 

10.00 

HAVERHILL. 



Gibson House, W. A. Gibson, 

25 

2.00 

7.00-10.00 

HIRAM BRIDGE, ME. 


Mt. Cutler House, A. V. Dow, 

50 


10.00 

Mountain View Farm, E. C. Wadsworth, 

30 

1.50 

8.00 

Wadsworth Hall, J. B. Pike, 

20 

1.00 

5.00-7.00 

Elevato Cottage, A. Kimball, 

10 


5.0C-8.00 

Private House, Alvina Lane, 

10 


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HOLDERNESS. 


Houses and Proprietors. Capacity. 

Per Day. 

Per Week. 

Mt. Livermore Estate, Mrs. B. F. Jewell. 

, 200 

2.50 

10.50-21.00 

The Asquam, H. F. Dorr, 

100 

3.00-4.00 

14.00-28.00 

The Beech Park, H. C. Ethridge, 

25 

2.50 

10.50-15 50 

Central House, J. S. Davison, 

CO 

3.00 up 

9.00-15.00 

Hillside Cottage, Mrs. R. E. Estes, 

Mt. Morgan Mineral Spring House, 

40 

1.50 

7.00-10.00 

E. C. Bennett, 

30 

1.50 

8.00-9.00 

The Homestead, Mrs. F. Boynton, 

10 

1.00 

6.00 

INTERVALE. 



Elmwood Inn and Cottage, 




W. M. Wyman, 

50 

2.50 

10.00-17.50 

Fairview House, W. D. Tasker, 

60 

2.50-3.50 

10.00-15.00 

Intervale Farm, F. A. Carlton, 

12 


7.00-10.00 

Intervale House, H. S: Mudgett, 

200 

3.50-5.00 

17.50-35.00 

Maple Villa, G. E. Gale, 

Pendexter Mansion and Cottage, 

50 

2.00-2.50 

12.00-18.00 

P. & 0. P. P. Drown, 

70 

2.00-3.00 

12.50-20.00 

Pitman Hall, W. Pitman, 

The Bellevue and Annex, 

100 

2.50-3.50 

12.50-2100 

J. A. Barnes’ Sons, 

125 

3.00 up 

17.50 up 

Forest House, D. D. Carlton, 

25’ 

1.50-2.00 

8.00-10.00 

The Langdon, J. L. Pendexter, 

50 

2.00-2.50 

8.00-16.00 

The Pequawket, C. C. Small, 

50 

2.50-3.00 

12.00-18.00 

ISLAND POND, VT. 



Stewart House, William A Richardson, 

150 


9.00-14.00 

JACKSON. 



Wentworth Hall and Cottages, 

J. N. Berry, 

275 

5.00 up 

35.00 up 

Gray’s Inn and Cottages, 

C. W. Gray, 

Glen Ellis House, H. A. Thompson, 

200 

125 

2.50 up 
2.50 

15.00 up 
12.00 up 

Eagle Mountain House, 

C. E. Gale & Son, 

Iron Mt. House, W. A. Meserve, 
Jackson Falls House, Trickey Bros., 
Perkins Cottage, C. B. Perkins, 
Cliff Cottage, C. F. Perkins, 
Hawthorne Cottage, J. E. Meserve, 
Fernald Cottage, 0. F. Fernald, 

125 

125 

100 

30 

25 

75 

25 

2.50- 4.00 
3.00-4.50 

2.50- 3.00 
2.00 

1.50 

2.00 

1.50 

12.00 21.00 
15.00-42.00 
12.00-21.00 
8.00-12.00 
5.00-8.00 
12.00-14.00 
7.00-9.00 

Pleasant Valley Hall, 

Thos. H. Brooks, 

Wilson Cottage, M. A. Proctor, 

50 

75 

2.00-3.00 

2.00-2.50 

Apply 

9.00-12.00 

{Stage from Glen S tation, Maine 

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JEFFERSON. 


Houses and Proprietors. Capacity. Per Day. Per Week. 

The Waumbek and Cottages, 


A. W. Hodgdon, Mgr., 

500 

5.00 

28.00 up 

Cold Spring House, Wm. Crawford, 

50 

2.00 

10.00-15.00 

Grand View Hlouse, Mrs. E. Harris, 

45 

2.50-3.00 

15.00-20.00 

Hillside Farm, M.M.Davenport & Son, 

35 

2.00 

9.00-12.00 

Tbe Lookoff, Higlit Bros., 

30 

1.5'0 

7.00-10.00 

Cloverdale Cottage, L. D. Kennison, 

30 

2.00 On 

application 

Highland House, 




J. L, Pottle & Son, 

65 

2.50-3.00 

18.00 up 

JEFFERSON HIGHLANDS. 


Mt. Adams House, J. W. Crawshaw, 

60 

2.00 

10.00-15.00 

Crawford House, E. A. Crawford & Son, 

60 


8.00-12.00 

Pliny Range Pouse, 




Geo. W. Crawford & Son, 

75 

2.50 

9.00-15.00 

Highland House, T. L. Pottle fy Son, 

60 

2.50-3.00 

12.00 up 

KEARSARGE 

VILLAGE. 


Russell Cottages, Mrs.G.W.Russell, 

125 

2.50-3.50 

15.00 up 

Abbott Farm, H. E. Bean, 

25 

1.50 

8.00-10.00 

Birchmere Farm, J. L. Nute, 

18 

1.25 

6.00-8.00 

Brookside Cottage, L. C. Barnes, 

20 

1.50 

7.00-10.00 

Mountain View Farm, 




Mrs. W. H. Eastman, 

20 

1.00 

6.00-7.00 

Rockfield Farm, G. W. Eastman, 

15 

1.00 

6.00-7.00 

The Arcadian, Mrs.M.E.McInt'ire, 

30 

1.50 

8.00-10.00 

LACONIA. 



Bay View House, R. A. Lappin, 

60 

2.50-3.00 

12.00-17.00 

Davis House, N. S. Davis, 

25 

1.00 

7.00 

Eagle Hotel, L. B. Woodman, 

50 

2.50-3.00 

14.00 up 

Grand View House, 0. C. Johnson, 

35 

2.00 

10.00-12 00 

Lakeview Inn, J. L. Bennett, 

40 

2.00 

8 00-10 00 

New City Hotel, F. 0. Wallace, 

100 

2.00 

7.00-10.00 

The Ewebin Inn, R. A. Lappin, 

60 

2.50-3.00 

12.00-17.00 

Watson Farm, L. W. Downing & Son, 

15 


5.00-7.00 

LANCASTER. 



Elmwood, F. Holton, 

15 

2.50 

10.00-15.00 

Grovedale Farm House, F. C. Leavitt, 

20 


7.CO 

Lancaster House, C. Marshall & Co., 

150 

2.50-3.50 

12.00-21.00 

Mansion House, W. C. Prouty, 

75 

2.00 

10.50-14.00 

Woodlawn Farm, S. M. Carter, 

15 


7.00-10.00 

LISBON. 



Breezy Hill House, E. Fish, 

85 

2.00-3.00 

10.00 up 

Foster Cottage, Mrs. J. L. Foster, 

15 

2.00 

7.00-8.00 

Hotel Moulton, T. W. Glover, 

50 

2.50-3.00 

12.00-18.00 

Peckett’s-on-Sugar Hill, R. P. Peckett, 

30 

3.00-4.00 

28.00-42.00 



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LITTLETON. 


Houses and Proprietors. 

Birch Rock Farm, C. E. Baker, 
Chiswick Inn, J. M. Robinson & Son, 
Dexter Farm, W. Dexter, 

Hillside Cottage, E. R. Glover, 

Maple Cottage, Mrs. Annie Burnham, 
Tamarack Terrace, Mrs. D. W. Lane, 
Thayer’s Hotel, F. C. Sheldon, 

The Elliott Hall, Mrs. S. R. Elliott, 
Tho Elms, C. W. Gleed, 

The Maples, M. F. Young, 

Wheeler Hill Cottage, J. R. Lyster, 
Willow Farm, F. P. Cheney, 
Woodside House, A. D. Fisher, 


Capacity. 

Per Day. 

Per Week. 

10 

1.25 

7.00-8.00 

80 

2.00 up 

10.00 up 

12 

1.00-1.50 

G.00-9.00 

12 

1.25 

7.00-9.00 

15 

1.25 

8.00-10.00 

20 

1.50 

7.00-12.00 

75 

2.50-3.50 

14.00-21.00 

20 

3.50 

17.00-20.00 

10 

1.00 

7.00 

50 

2.50-3.00 

10.50-21.00 

20 

1.00 

5.00-7.00 

10 

1.50 

7.00-9.00 

25 

1.25 

8.00 


LONG ISLAND (Lake Winnepesaukee). 

Long Island House, Brown & Chapman, 50 2.00 

Tip Top House, Miss M. Wentworth, 18 1.00 


8 . 00 - 12.00 

5.00-6.00 


LOVELL, ME. 

The Maples, J. B. Kimball, 10 1.50 

Fairview Hotel, A. A. Stearns, 35 1.00 

{Stage from Fryeburg.) 


10.00 

7.00 


LOWER BARTLETT. 


Pitman Hall, W. Pitman, 

75 

2.00 

8.00-12.00 

Pequawket House, C. C. Small, 

50 

1.50 

7.00-12.00 

Maple Villa, G. E. Gale, 

25 

1.50-2.50 

7.00-12.00 

Cedarcroft, N. B. Russell, 

20 

1.25 

6.00-9.00 

(Reached via 

Intervale .) 


LUNENBURG, VT. 



Lunenburg Heights House, 

50 

2.00 

7.00-12.00 

MAPLEWOOD. 



(See Bethlehem.) 



MELVIN VILLAGE. 

■* 


Brookside Cottage, C. II. Ilodgdon, 

15 

1.00 

7.00 

Copp Farm, Geo. W. Copp, 

20 

1.00 

7.00 

Fernald House, II. E. Fernald, 

55 

1.50 

9.00 

Ilorno Farm, Mrs. F. E. Horne, 

80 

2.00 

8.00-10.00 

The Wawlook, L. D. Blaisdell, 

80 

2.00 

8.00-12.00 



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MEREDITH VILLAGE. 


Houses and Proprietors. 

Capacity. 

Per Day. 

Ballard House, W. W. Ballard, 

20 

1.00 

Clover Ridge Farm, M. C. Brown, 

20 

1.C0 

Elm Hotel, E. C. Hibbard, 

50 

2.00 

Grampian House, James R. Lovett, 

35 

1.50 

Granite Rocks House, A. M. Avery, 

18 

1.50 

Maple House, J. C. Dockliam, 

14 

1.25 

Oakhurst, Mrs. G. W. Lorey, 

20 

2.00 

Prospect House, H. W. Lincoln, 

40 

1.25-2.00 

The Ferns, J. W. Clough, 

15 

1.25 

The Maples, A. S. Clough, 

20 

1.50 

The Maplehurst, Mrs. M. C. Clark, 

30 

1.00 

MERIDEN 


Dexter Richards Hall, F. M. Howe, 

60 

2.00 

MOULTONBORO. 


Elm Brook Farm, F. L. Davis, 

30 

1.50 

Prospect Cottage, W. O. Robinson, 

35 

1.50 

Red Oaks, E. C. Kent, 

25 

1.25 

The Homestead, G. A. Blanchard, 

20 

2.00 

The Pleasantdale, Ernest E. Davis, 

25 

1.50 

Tilton House, Tilton & Haley, 

25 

1.00 

Winnepesaukee Inn, F. A. & J. A. Greene, 160 

2.50 


MT. WASHINGTON. 


Old Tip Top House, 

Open for shelter and 

Barron, Merrill & Barron, 

day only 

NAPLES 

, ME. 


Bay of Naples Inn, A. C. Brooks, 

250 

4.00 up 

Crockett House,* L. P. Crockett, 

50 

1.50-2.00 

Hotel Locust, G. N. Mann, 

25 

1.00-1.50 

Hotel Naples, G. M. Day, 

50 

2.00 

Lake House and Annex, 

S. L. Wentworth, 

125 

2.00 

Pine Grove Farm House, 

J. E. Barker, 

30 

1.50 

(* P. O. South Naples'", Me.) 

NORTH BRIDGTON, 

ME. 

Arcade, S’. L. Monk. 

50 

1.50 

The S’ongo, S. D. Meserve & Son, 

40 

3.00-4.00 


Per Week. 
7.00-8.00 
6.00-7.00 
8.00-14.00 
7.00-10.00 
7.00-9.00 
7.00 
7.00-12.00 
8 . 00 - 10.00 
7.00-9.00 
7.00-10.00 


8.00-15.00 


7.00-10.00 

7.00-9.00 

7.50-10.00 

7.00-8.00 

7.00-10.00 

6 . 00 - 8.00 

15.00 


meals during 


24.50 up 
7.00-10.00 
7.00-10.00 
8.00-12.5'0 

14.00-18.00 

7.00-9.00 


7.00-10.00 

14.00-25.00 



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NEWEURY, VT. 


Houses aud Proprietors. Capacity. 

Per Day. 

Per Week. 

Newport House, F. E. Hapgood, 

50 

2.00-2.50 

Special 

The Raymond, D. W. Sisco, 

30 

2.00-2.50 

14.00 

NEWFIELD, ME. 



Mountain Echo Farm, W. E. Lord, 

10 


5.00 

NORTH CONWAY. 



Center Villa, F G. Eastman, 

40 

2.00 

7.00-12.00 

Echo Farm, A. E. Hi Brooks, 

20 

1.00 

7.00 

Edgewood Cottage, G. F Wolcott, 

40 

2.00-2.50 

10.00-15.00 

Hotel Randall, IT. II. Randall, 

100 

3.00-5.00 

14.00-28.00 

Kearsarge Hall, Mrs. L. J. Ricker, 

50 

2.50 

10.00-15.00 

Ledge View House, I. C. Davis, 

20 

2.00 

8.00-12.00 

Moat Mt. House and S'pencer Cottage, 



J. C. Eastman & Sons, 

50 

2.00-3.00 

10.00-20.00 

Mt. View House, Mrs. J. Hunter, 

20 

2.00 

10.00-14.00 

The Kearsarge, Raymond & Whit¬ 




comb Go., J. L. Gibson, Mgr., 

250 

4.00 up 

25.00 up 

The Lucy Farm, Fred Lucy, 

30 

2.50 

8.00-12.00 

The Moat View, W. H. Eastman, 

75 

2.00-2.50 

8.00-14.00 

The Sunset, M. L. Mason, 

100 

3.00 

12.50-21.00 

White Horse Villa Farm, 




Mrs. Perry Smith, 

60 

1.50 

8.00-10.00 

(See also Intervale, Kearsarge and 

Lower Bartlett ) 

NORTH STRATFORD. 


Hotel Atkinson, 

40 

2.00 

10.00 

Hotel Daley, 

20 

1.00 

6.00 

NORTH WOODSTOCK. 


Deer Park Hotel, FI. W. Sanborn, 

200 

4.00 

15\00 28.00 

Fairview House, A. W. Sawyer, 

100 

2.50-3.00 

12.00-20.00 

Mount Adams, J. G. Donahue, 

100 

2.50 

10.00 up 

Mountain Park House, W.E.Merrill, 

50 

2.50 

10.00-15.00 

Mt. View House, H, S. Sanborn, 

125 

2.00 

9.00-15.00 

Pine Ridge House, T. L. Stewart, 

15 

2.75 

12.00-20.00 

Russell House, Jennie Russell & Co., 

75 

2.50 

9.00-15.00 

The Alpine, J. H. Bachelder, 

300 

3.50-5.00 

15.00-35.00 

Maplewood Cottage, Mrs. I.E.Clark, 

50 

2.5'0 up 

9.00-16.00 

OSSIPEE. 



Cloudland, W. S. Chase, 

18 

1.25 

7.00 

Carroll Inn, W. E. Wiggin, 

50 

2.00 up 

10.00-20.00 

Maplehurst Farm, Mrs. A. D. Leighton, 

15 

1.50 

7.00-12.00 

Maplewood Cottage, Mrs. Edna Lord, 

20 

1.25 

7.00 

Mountain Side Farm, Mrs. A. P. Evitts, 

20 

1.00-2.00 

7 00-12.00 

Pocket Mt. Farm, Mrs. H. P. Harding, 

20 

2.00 

6.00-12.00 

Roland Park House, L. L. Farnham, 

20 


On application 



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PLYMOUTH. 


Houses and Proprietors. 

Capacity. 

Per Day. 

Per Week. 

Intervale Tarm, J. Ahern & Son, 

23 

1.50 

7.00-8.00 

Mountain View House, D. H. Sawyer. 

12 

1.25 

7.C0-10.C0 

Tineland Farm, Mrs. D. P. Pollard, 

10 

1.00 

6.00-7.00 

Pine Grove Farm, J. R. Downing, 

12 

1.00 

6.(0 

The Elmwood, F. II. Caldon, 

30 

2.10 

10.00-14.00 

The Riverview, C. II. Schofield, 

25 

2.00 

7.00-10.(0 

The Villa, Mrs. E. G. Sargent, 

12 

1.50 

Special 

Tyler House, W. B. Hutchins, 

35 

2.00-2.50 

12.00-14-00 

RANDOLPH. 



Mountain View House, 




Mrs. S. A. Boothman, 

40 

l.ffO 

8.00-10.00 

Mt.Crescent House, J.ILBoothman, 

, 75 

2.50 

12.00-16.00 

Ravine House, C. B. Bridgman, 

1.50 

3.00 up 

21.00 up 

RUMNEY. 



Emerson House, Mrs. M. M. Emerson, 

12 

1.00 

6.00 

Welcome House, J. Roberts, 

20 

1.00 

5.00-7.00 

SANDWICH. 



Maplewood Cottage, A. M. Graves, 

30 

1.C0 

6.00-9.00 

Rockmere Farm, Frank E. Tilton, 

25 

1.00 

5.C0-6.(0 

Twin Maple Cottage, A. L. Vittum, 

20 

1.C0 

6.CO 

Way Side Farm, C. A. Forssius, 

10 

1.25 

7.C0.9.00 


(i Stage from Center Harbor .) 


SEBAGO LAKE, ME. 


Sebago Lake House, C. Y. Colclough, 

50 

2.25 

10.00 up 

The Chadbourne, H. F. Roberts, 

32 

2.00 

10.00-12.00 

Victoria Cottage, F. H. Flopkinson, 

40 

2.00 up 

10.00 up 

Boarding House, Asa Weeman, 

i5 

1.00 

6.00-8.00 

Dyke Mt. Farm, G. L. Dyke, 

CO 

2.00-3.00 

12.00 up 

Hillside Farm, C. F. Irish & Sen, 

30 

1.00 

6.00-8.00 

West Shore Camps, A. L. Brackett, 

40 

1.50-2.00 

10.00-12.00 


SHELBURNE. 


Gates Cottage, Miss S. A. G tes, 

30 

2.00 

8.00-12.00 

Grove Cottage, C. M. Pliiibrook. 

10 

2.00 

6.00-12.00 

Shelburne Spring House, S. J. Morse, 

50 

1.50 

7.00-9.00 

Gates Cottage, Miss S. A. Gates, 

25 

2.00 

8.00-12.00 

SUGAR HILL 



Breezy Hill House, E. Fish, 

85 

2.00-3.00 

10.00 up 

Highland Fi rm House, W. D. Smith, 

25 

1.50 

8.00-12.00 

Hildreth Maple Sugar Farm, 




Hildreth & Dexter, 

15 


8-00-10.00 

Beckett’s on Sugar Hill, 




R. P. Peckett, 

50 

5.00 up 

35.00 up 



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Houses and Proprietors. 

Capacity. 

Per Day. 

Hill Rest and Cottages, H. M. Smith, 

40 

2.50 

Miramonte Inn, A. R. Atwood, 

75 

3.CO 

Peckett’s-on-Sugar Hill, R. P. Teckett 
Sunset Hill House, 

, 30 

3.00-4.00 

Bowles & Hoskins Co., 

325 

4.00 

The Echoes, A. E. Jesseman, 

50 

2.00-3.00 

The Homestead, Simon Bowles, 

40 

2.00 

The Jessemine, Mrs. L. 4. Jesseman, 

30 

2.(0 

The Mt. Lookolf, A. E. Stafford, 

150 

3.CO up 

TAMWORTH. 


Arling Farm Lodge, Frank Arling, 

30 

1.50-2.00 

Hotel Tamworth, J. H. Martin, 

75 

2.00 

Mountain Park Cottage, G. II. Huntress, 14 

1.50 

Swift River House. II. L. Wiggin, 

20 

1.25 

The Maples, Mrs. C. P. Johnson, 

16 

2.00 

The Pines, Mrs. A. W. Fisher, 

30 

2.00 

TUFTONBORO. 


Canney Ridge Farm, L. C. Canney, 
Cedar Mountain House, 

16 

1.00 

Mrs. A. M. Guppy, 

25 

1.00 

Echo Farm, A. M. Bean, 

18 

1.00 


TWIN MOUNTAIN STATION. 


Burbank Cottage, M. A. Sheehe, 

60 

2.50 

Elmwood, John Paige, 

25 

2 00 

McMillan House, Mrs. D. McMillan, 

40 

2.00 

Pleasant View Cottage, Mrs.C.S.Milcs 

, 10 

1.00 

Rosebrook Inn, J. F. Whalen, 

50 

2.00 

The Maples, J. A. M'ulleavey, 

Twin Mountain House, 

35 

2.50 

The Bar:on, Merrill & Barron Co-, 
Twin Mountain House Annex, 

The Barron, Merrill & Barron Co., 

180 

4.00 

UNION. 


Whip-poor-will Farm, Mrs. P. E. Hall, 

30 

1.00 

WARREN. 


Hillside Farm, G. C. Eastman, 

18 

1.00 

Merrill’s Mountain House, A. L. Merrill, 

35 

1.50 

Sunrise Farm, Geo. N. Boynton, 

Tip Top House (Mt. Moosilauke), 

10 

1.00 

M. T. Clement, 

50 

3.00 

The Moosilauke Inn, A. E. Morse, 

125 

3.00- 


Per Week. 
10.00-15.00 
14.00-20.00 
28.00-42.00 

17.50-28.00 

8.00-15.00 

8.00-15.00 

9.00-13.00 

Special 


7.00-9o00 

7.00-10.00 

6 . 00 - 8.00 

7.00-8.00 

7.00-9.00 

8 . 00 - 12.00 


5.00-6.00 

5.00-6.00 

6.00-7.00 


12.00-15.00 

8 . 00 - 10.00 

7.00-10.00 

7.00 

10 . 00 - 12.00 

9 . 00 - 12.00 

17.50 up 

14.00 up 


6.00-7.00 


6.00-7.00 

7.00-10.00 

6 . 00 - 10.00 

14.00 up 
14.00-21.00 




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WATER VILLE. 

Houses and Proprietors. Capacity. Per Day. Per Week. 

Elliott’s Hotel, D. F. Austin, 200 3.00 17.50 

WELLS RIVER, VT. 


Hale’s Tavern, J. F. Hale, 

75 

2.50-3.00 

10.50-21.00 

WENTWORTH. 



Burnham House, I. M. Burnham, 

30 

1.50 

7.00 

Maple Cottage, F. D. Ellsworth, 

15 


5.00-7.00 

Mt. Carr House, Mrs. E. Pillsbury, 

24 

1.00 

5.00-8.00 

Mountain View House, 




Mrs. E. Richardson, 

20 

1.50 

7.00 

Webster House, F. E. Webster, 

1G 


6.00-9.00 

WEST CAMPTON. 



The Maples, C. G. Avery, 

30 

1.50 

7.00-10.00 

WEST THORNTON. 



Echo Cottage Farm, W. H. Weeks, 

10 

1.00 

4.06-7.00 

Green Mountain Farm, 




Mrs. E. F. Woodbury, 

14 

1.00 

5.00-7.00 

Maple Grove House, S. D. Fadden, 

35 

1.00 

5.00-7.00 

WATERFORD, ME. 



Boarding House, S. H. Abbott, 

10 

1.00 

5.00-7.00 

Boarding House, Mrs. F. A. Plummer, 

10 

1.50 

7.00-10.00 

Lake Home, E. M. Dudley, 

75 

2.00 

9.00 up 

Hillside Cottage, F. A. Noble, 

15 

1.50 

7.00 10.00 

Wilkins Cottage, Mrs. E. Wilkins, 

20 

1.50 

5.00-8.00 

WEIRS. 



Chateau de Lis, Farr & Allen, 

50 

1.50-2.50 

7.00-12.00 

Eagle Cottage, Mrs. S. L. Mitchell, 

20 

1.50 

7.00-10.00 

Endicott House, F. E. Moore, 

30 

1.00 

7.00 

Fernside Cottage, Mrs. J. E. Avery, 

25 

1.00 

5.00 

Lake Shore Farm, Mrs. F. P. Wilkinson, 

25 

1.50 

8.C0-9.00 

Lake Shore Camp Lodge, 




Geo. H. Wil is, Mgr., 

100 

2.00 

9.00 up 

Lakeside House, G. W. Weeks, 

150 

3.00 

12.00 up 

Lakeview House, J. N. W. Kennon, 

50 

2.00 

8.00-12.00 

New Hotel Weirs, F. H. Lancaster, Mgr. 300 

3.00 

18.00 

Story’s Tavern and Annex, D. B. Story, 

100 

2.00 

8.00-12.00 

The Pleasant View, J. N. W. Kennon, 

50 

1.50 

7.00-10.00 

Wadleigh Farm, E. C. Hayward, 

12 

1.00-1.50 

7.00-10.00 

Winnecoettc House, Geo. W. Weeks, 

50 

3.00 

12.00 up 

Winnepesaukee Cottage, Belle F. Elliott, 

50 

1.25-1.75 

8.00-10.00 



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WEST OSSIPEE. 


Houses and Proprietors. Capacity. 

Per Day. 

Per Week. 

Chocorua House, M, E. Robertson, 

100 

2.00-2.50 

9.00-14.CO 

Camp Ossipee. H. B. Young, Mgr., 

100 

2.50-3.00 

15.00-18.00 

Lakeside Cottage, Mrs. M. E. Moran, 

14 

2.CO 

10X0 

Mt. Whittier House, C. W. White, 

30 

1.50 

G.00-8.00 

Woodbine Cottage, Mrs. N. H. Varney, 

15 

1.5 0 

7.00 

WHITEFIELD. 

Fiske House, H. L. Hunt, 100 

2.50 

14.00 lip 

Grand View Cottage, Mrs.A.B.Colby, 

15 

1.00 

7.00 

Lindsay’s Inn, R. P. Lindsay, 

50 

2.50-3.00 

14.00 

Locust Cottage, E. H. Parker, 

35 

2.00 

10.00-12.00 

Mountain View House, 

W. F. Dodge & Son, 

200 

5.00 up 

28.00 up 

Overlook, A. W. Bowles, 

60 

2.50-3.00 

12.00-18.00 

Pondicherry Lodge, Merrill Bros., 

15 

1.50-2.00 

8.00-15.00 

The Elms, J. S. Reynolds, 

25 

2.00 

10.00-14.00 


WOLFBORO. 


Bonny View Farm, F. A. Doe, 

20 

1.25 

G.00-8.00 

Camp, Capt. W. D. Horne, 

20 

1.50 

10.00 

Chamberlin’s Farm, Lilia M. Chamberlin, 

10 

1.(0 

5.00-G.00 

Cotton Homestead, J. C. Cotton, 

12 

1.50 

7.00-8.00 

Edgerley Farm, J. A. Edgerley, 

50 

1.50 

8.00-12.00 

Glen Cottage, Mrs. Levi Horne, 

40 

Rooms 

only 

Golden Rule Farm, Miss E. F. Mason, 

18 

1.00 

G.00 

Haines Farm, Mrs. A. Haines, 

30 

1.50 

7.00-9.00 

Hersey Farm, J. H. Hersey, 

14 

1.00 

6.00-7.00 

Hillhurst Cottage, H. B. Tibbetts, 

14 

1.00 

7.00 

Hotel Elmwood, M. Cronin, 

150 

2.00-3.00 

10.50-18.00 

Johnson’s Cottage, Mrs. C. Johnson, 

Lake and Mountain House, 

10 

1.00 

7.00 

Mrs. Ida M. Morgan, 

14 

1.00 

5.00-G.00 

Mountain House, D. J. Cotton, 

20 

1.00 

7.00 

Oak Cottage, Mrs. A. F. Dickson, 

8 


G. 00-7.00 

Point Breeze, C. H. Stevens, 

90 

2.00 

8.00-10.CO 

Sheridan House, W. E. Wiggin, 

100 

2.00 up 

10.00-17.C0 

The Elms, S. A. Meader, 

20 

1.25 

7.00-10.00 


WOODSTOCK. 


Barron Mt. House, C. C. Griffin, 

15 

1.50 

5.00-7.00 

Fern Hill Farm, S. G. Sawyer, 

14 

1.50 

6.00-8.00 

The Homestead Farm, A. B. Sawyer, 

30 

2.(0 

7.00-9.00 

The Woodlands, Nelson W. Brown, 

18 

1.00-1.50 

6.00-8.00 

WOODS VILLE. 



Hotel Wentworth, W.F.Wormwood, 

100 

3.00 up 

Apply 

Central House, F. M. Valley, 

50 

2.00 

6.00-9.00 






DISTANCES IN MILES 


From the Chief Mountain and Lake Resorts to Neighboring Places 
of Interest. 


ALTON BAY to 

Alton, 1(4; Sheep Mountain, 3(4; Prospect Hill, 4; Mount 
Belknap, 13 (4; Lougee Pond, 7; Merry-Meeting Lake, 7; 
Wolfeborough (by road) 11, (by lake) 10. 

BERLIN FALLS to 

Gorham, 6; Alpine Cascades, 1(4; Mount Forist, 1(4; Ber¬ 
lin Heights, 4 (4; Milan Corner, 8. 

BETHEL to 

Paradise Hill, 1 %; Sunset Rock, 1(4; Songo Pond, 4: 
Bryant’s Pond, 9; Albany Basins, 12; Crystal Ledge, 12; 
Screw-Auger Falls, 15; Rumford Falls, 22; Lake Um- 
bagog, 27. 

BETHLEHEM to 

Bethlehem Junction, 3; Cruft’s Ledge, 2; Watson’s Farm, 
3; Wallace Hill, 3(4 ; Kimball Hill, 5; Sugar Hill, 7(4; 
New Profile House, 10; Whitefield, 8 ; Lancaster, 16; Jeffer¬ 
son Hill, 15; Littleton, 5; Crawford House, 17; Mount 
Washington, 22. 

BRIDGTON to 

Bridgton Landing, 1; Heights Circuit, 7; Waterford, 9; 
Moose-Pond Circuit, 8; Mount Pleasant, 10; Naples, 9; 
Wood’s Pond, 3(4; Fryeburg, 14; Hiram Junction, 16. 

CAMPTON VILLAGE to 

Mill-Brook Cascades, 6; West Campton, 2; Plymouth, 5(4. 
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CENTRE HARBOR to 

Sunset Hill, 1; Centre-Harbor Hill, 1; Red Hill, 6; Squam 
Lake, 2; Meredith, 5; Long Island, 8; Rollins Hill, 7; 
Centre Sandwich, 8; Ossipee Falls, 10; Plymouth, 14; 
West Ossipee, 18; Melvin Village, 12; Moultonborough 
Corner, 5. 


CONWAY CORNER to 

North Conway, 5; Allard’s Hill, 2; Washington Boulder, 
1; Buttermilk Hollow, 6; Echo Lake, 5 ; Potter’s Farm, 7; 
Fryeburg, 8; Chocorua Lake, 9; Swift-River Falls, 8; 
Champney Falls, 10; Swift-River Intervale, 14; White- 
Mountain Mineral Spring, 2. 

COLEBROOK to 

Dixfield Notch, 8. 

THE CRAWFORD HOUSE to 

The Gate of the Notch, the Profile, *4; Gibbs’s Falls, 
^4; Beecher’s Cascades, ^4 5 Pulpit Rock, 14; Flume Cas¬ 
cade, 24; Silver Cascade, 1; Elephant’s Head, *4; Mount 
Willard, 2; Hitchcock Flume, 2; Willey House, 3; Ripley 
Falls, 6; Arethusa Falls, 7*4; Fabyan House, 4; Mount 
Washington (by bridle-path) 8J4, (by railroad) 13; North 
Conway, 27. 


THE FABYAN HOUSE to 

Mount-Pleasant House, J4; White-Mountain House, 1; 
Lower Ammonoosuc Falls, 1/4; Twin-Mountain House, 5; 
Base of Mount Washington, 6; Summit of Mount Wash¬ 
ington, 9; Upper Ammonoosuc Falls, 3J4; Bethlehem, 13; 
New Profile House, 20; North Conway, 31; Jefferson 
Hill, 12. 


THE FLUME HOUSE to 

The Pool, j4; The Flume, 1; The Basin, 1}4; Mount Pem- 
igewasset, 1}4; Georgianna Falls, 3; Tunnel Falls, 2 l / 2 ) 
Island Falls, 3; Pollards, 4; New Profile House, 5; 
Plymouth, 24. 


FRANCONIA to 

Littleton, 5; New Profile House, 6; Sugar Hill, 2J4; 
Bridal-Veil Falls, 7; Kinsman Flume, 




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FRYEBURG to 

Pine Hill, J4; Stark’s Hill, 34; Swan’s Falls, 134; Jockey 
Cap and Lovewell’s Pond, 1; Battle-Ground, 2; Mount 
Pleasant, 7; North Conway, 10; Lovell, 10; Upper Kezar 
Pond, ll l / 2 ; Chatham (Chandler’s), 17. 

THE GLEN HOUSE to 

Garnet Pool, 1; Emerald Pool, 1; The Imp, 2 ; Thompson’s 
Falls, 2; Crystal Cascade, 334; Tuckerman’s Ravine, 5; 
Glen-Ellis Falls, 4; Summit of Mount Washington, 834; 
Gorham, 8; Jackson, 12; Glen Station, 1534; North Con¬ 
way, 20; Jefferson Hill, 26; Summit of Mount Madison, 4; 
Carter Notch, 4; Osgood’s Cascades, 1J4- 

GORHAM to 

Randolph Hill (Summit), 634; Berlin Falls, 6; Alpine 
Cascade, 4J4; Lead-Mine Bridge, 434; Shelburne, 6; Milan, 
14 ; Mount Moriah, 5; Mount Surprise, 234 5 Mount Hayes, 
2; Glen House, 8; Top of Mount Washington, 16J4; Jeffer¬ 
son Hill, 17. 


GROVETON to 

Cape Horn, 3; The Percy Peaks, 5; North Statford, 2; 
Milan, 19; Lancaster, 12. 

HAVERHILL to 

Piermont, 434; Newbury, 3J4; Orford, 10; Warren, 12 34; 
Black Mountain, \\ l / 2 \ Top of Moosilauke, 13; Woodsville, 
9; Top of Sugar Loaf, 11. 

JACKSON to 

Glen Station, 3; Thorn Mountain, 3; Iron Mountain, 4; 
Double Head, 434; Fernald Farm, 5; Winniweta Falls, 
3 34; Glen-Ellis Falls, 8; Glen House, 12; Crystal Cascade, 
1034; Ponds in Carter Notch, 9; Grant’s Ledge, 5; Hillside 
Circuit, 5; Thorn-Hill Road, 8; Dundee Road, 12; North 
Conway, 9; The Ledges, 15. 

JEFFERSON HILL to 

Railroad Station, 2J4; Top of Mount Starr King, 1J4; 
Bray Hill, 6 ; Jefferson Mills, 3; Stag Hollow, 5; Blair’s 
Mills, 8; Lancaster, 8; Gore Road, 8; Whitefield, 11; Dal¬ 
ton, 1434; Fabyan House, 12; Cherry Mountain, 6; Twin- 
Mountain House, 11; Bethlehem, 18; Mount-Adams House, 
5; Gorham, 17; Glerj House, 19; North Road, 8. 




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LACONIA to 

Bay-View House, V/ 2 ; Gilford, 4; Lake Village, V/ 2 \ Gil- 
manton Academy, 8; Weirs, 6; Mount Belknap,, 8 l / 2 . 

LANCASTER to 

Jefferson Mills, 5; Jefferson Hill, 8; Whitefield, 8; North¬ 
umberland, 6; Groveton, 10; Lunenburg Heights, 8; Bray 
Hill, 8; Mount Prospect, 2; Dalton, 9; Lost Nation, 6; 
Mount Pilot, 10. 

LISBON to 

Landaff Centre, 3; Parker Hill, M/ 2 \ Hunt’s Mountain, 8; 
Sugar Hill, 7; Bath, 5; New Profile House, 15. 

LITTLETON to 

Bethlehem, 5 ; Franconia, 6 ; Howland Observatory, 9 ; New 
Profile House, 11; Mann’s Hill, 2; Mount Misery, 5; 
Eustis Hill, iy 2 ) Waterford, 5; Upper Waterford, 6; Gil- 
manton Hill, 2; Around the Heater, 3. 

LOWER BARTLETT to 

Jackson, 4; Around, the Square, 7; North Conway, 4; Iron 
Mountain, 4; Echo Lake, 7; Thorn Hill, 3; Bartlett 
Boulder, 3; Dundee Road, 10. 

MELVIN VILLAGE to 

Wolfeborough, 10; Mackerel Corner, 4; Moultonborough, 
8; Ossipee Falls, 4; Moultonborough Mineral Spring, 4. 

MEREDITH VILLAGE to 

Centre Harbor, 5; Prospect House, 3; Waukawan Lake, 
U/ 2 \ Weirs, 4; Plymouth, 14. 

MOOSILAUKE to 

Base of Mountain Road, 4 1-3; Warren, 10; Warren Sum¬ 
mit, 5; Haverhill, 13; Head of Slide, ]/ 2 \ Newbury, Vt., 16; 
Franconia Iron Works, 17 x / 2 . 

MOULTONBOROUGH CORNER to 

Centre Sandwich, A'/ 2 ‘, Centre Harbor, 5; Ossipee Falls, 5; 
Whittier Peak, 5; Tuftonborough Corner, 10; Tamworth, 
12; West Ossipee, 13. 




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NEWBURY (Vt.) ' to 

Mount Pulaski, % ; Montebello Sulphur and Iron Springs, 
]/ 2 \ Wells River, 5; Haverhill. 3]/ 2 ; Bradford, I]/ 2 ’, Tops of 
Black Mountain and Sugar Loaf, 15^2 ; Top of Moosilauke, 
16; Wright’s Mountain, 8; New Profile House, 25. 

NORTH CONWAY to 

Artist’s Falls, 1 y 2 \ Forest Glen Mineral Spring, 1 y 2 \ Mc¬ 
Millan House, 1; Kiarsarge Village, 1 ^ 2 ; The Intervale, 
1(4; Around the Square, 5; Thompson’s Falls, 4, Diana’s 
Baths, 3; Cathedral, 2 (4; Echo Lake, 2(4; Top of Moat 
Mountain (by path), 6(4; Top of Kiarsarge (by path), 
4(4; Middle Mountain (by path), 3; Artist’s Ledge, 2; 
Top of Peaked Mountain, 2(4; Jackson Falls, 9; Bartlett 
Boulder, 7; Washington Boulder, 6; Conway Corner, 5; 
Thorn-Hill Drive, 9; Ridge Ride, 8; Dundee Road, 12; 
Fryeburg, 10; Carter Notch, 14; Glen-Ellis Falls, 16; 
Humphrey’s Ledge, 14; Chocorua Lake, 18; But¬ 
termilk Hollow, 10; Sligo, 13; Swift-River Falls, 18; 
Potter’s Farm (Walker’s Pond), 12; Allard’s Hill, 7; 
White-Mountain Mineral Spring, 4. 

ORFORD to 

Top of Mount Cuba, 9; Wentworth, 13; Piermont, 5(4; 
Seven Pines, (4; Fairlee Pond, 1 y 2 . 

PLYMOUTH to 

Trinity Church, Holderness, iy 2 ; Mount Prospect, 4 (4; 
Livermore Falls, 2; Squam Lake, 7; Around Plymouth 
Mountain, 10; Centre Harbor, 12; Bridgewater. 6; Camp- 
ton Village, 5(4; Rumney, 7; Newfound Lake, 9; Loon 
Pond, 9; West Campton, 7; Waterville, 38; Thornton 
Centre, 12; Woodstock, 16; New Profile House, 29. 

NEW PROFILE HOUSE to 

The Profile and Profile Lake, > 2 ; Echo Lake, J4; Lone¬ 
some Lake, 3; Top of Mount Cannon, 2; Top of Bald 
Mountain, 2; Top of Mount Lafayette, 3J4 ; Walker’s Falls, 
3; Island Falls, 5; The Basin, 3(4; The Flume House, 5; 
The Flume, 6; Franconia Iron-Works, 5J4 ; Sugar Hill, 8; 
Bethlehem Junction, 9(4; Top of Mount Washington, 29; 
Littleton, 11. 

RUMNEY to 

Top of Mount Stinson, 3; of Rattlesnake Mountain, 2(4; 
Ellsworth, 6; Wentworth, 8. 




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SANDWICH (Centre) to 

Squam Lake, 3; Red-Hill Pond, 1$4; Bearcamp Pond, 4^4; 
Moultonborough Corner, 4}4; Centre Harbor, 8; Thornton 
Street (through Sandwich Notch), 12; Tamworth, 10. 

TAMWORTH VILLAGE to 

Ordination Rock, 1; Top of Chocorua, 8; Marston Hill, 
1 l / 2 \ Chocorua Lake, 4J4; Centre Sandwich, 10; West 
Ossipee, 4. 


TWIN-MOUNTAIN HOUSE to 

Fabyan House, 5; Jefferson Hill, 13; Whitefield, 8; Craw¬ 
ford House, 9; Lancaster, 16; Cherry Mountain Path, 8. 

UPPER BARTLETT to 

(By road) Lower Bartlett, 7; Bemis, 5*4 ; North Con¬ 
way, 12 j /4 ; Top of Bear Mountain, 3; of Mount Langdon, 
2; Mount Tremont, 3. 


WARREN to 

Ore Hill, 3J4; Wentworth, 5; Breezy-Point House, 4; 
Piermont, 9J4; Haverhill, 9J4; Top of Moosilauke, 10. 

WATERVILLE to 

Top of Osceola, 4 1-6; of Tecumseh, 3 1-16; of Black 
Mountain (Sandwich Dome), 5J4; Greeley Ponds, 4; The 
Waterville Flume, 3^4; The Cascade, 1J4; Campton, 11; 
Plymouth, 18; Upper Batrlett, 15; Flat-Mountain Pond, 5; 
Foot of the Tripyramid Slide, 2; Top of Tripyramid, 4^4; 
Top of Noon Peak, 3 %; Top of Jennings Peak, 

WEST OSSIPPEE to 

North Conway, 16; Centre Harbor, 18; South Tamworth, 
6; Ossipee Lake, 4; Tamworth Village, 4; Silver Lake, 
2 J4; Madison, 4; Chocorua Lake, 6. 

WHITEFIELD to 

Mountain-View House, 3^4; Cherry-Mountain House, 4; 
Bethlehem, 8; Twin-Mountain House, 8; Howland Obser¬ 
vatory, 2; Dalton, 6J4; Lancaster. 10. 



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WOODSTOCK to 

The Agassiz Basins, 2; Thornton Gore, 5; Base of Mount 
Moosilauke, 8; Fox’s, 1; Plymouth, 16; Flume House, 8; 
North Woodstock, 4}4. 

WOLFBOROUGH to 

Copple Crown, Q l / 2 ; Around the Short Square, 6; Around 
the Long Square, 12; Alton Bay, 10; Melvin Village, 10; 
Devil’s Den, 8; Tumble Down Dick, 6; Around Smith’s 
Pond, 12; Ossipee Falls, 14. 



ALTITUDES 

Expressed in Feet, according to the United-States Coast 
and Geodetic Survey, the New-Hampshire Geological 
Survey, the Railroad Levellings, Osgood's Guide-Book 
Reconnaissances, and the Explorations of the Appa¬ 
lachian Mountain Club. 


MOUNTAINS. 


Feet. 

Abraham, 3,387 

Adams, 5,794 

Sam Adams Peak 
(A.), 5,554 

John Quincy Adams 
(A.), 

Foot of Path (A.), 

First Ledges (A.), 
Agassiz, 

Anderson, 

Bald (Franconia) (A.), 
Baldcap (A.), 

Baldface, 

Bear, 

Belknap (A.), 

Piper (A.), 

Black (Waterville) 

/'IT ^ a QQQ 

Jennings Peak (A.),3,’587 
Sachem Peak (A.), 3,050 
Acteon Peak (A ) 

Bald Knob (A.), 

Black (Benton), 

Blue (Maine), 

Blueberry, 


5,384 

1,430 

4,342 

2,042 

4,000 

2,310 

3,081 

3,600 

3,000 

2,394 

2,063 


2,545 

2,391 

3,571 

3,200 

2,80tf 


Blue Ridge, 

Bond (G.), 

Boy (A.), 

Bray Hill, 

Campton (A.), 

Cannon (A.), 

Cape Horn, 

Carr, 

Carrigan, 

Carter, North Peak, 
Carter Dome, 
Cherry, 

Owl’s Hekd (A.), 
Chocorua, 

Clay, 

Clinton, 

Cooke’s (Campton), 
Copple Crown, 
Crawford, 

Cuba, 

Cushman, 

Deception, 

Dickey, 

Double-Head, 

Duck-Pond, 


2,000 

4,650 

2,278 

1,637 

2,879 

Feet. 

3,865 

2,735 

3,522 

3,678 

4,702 

4,830 

3,670 

3,302 

3,540 

5,553 

4,320 

2,236 

2,100 

3,134 

2,927 

3,326 

2,193 

2,788 

3,120 

2,000 


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Feet. 

Eagle Cliff, 

3,446 

Field, 

4,330 

Fisher, 

3,470 

Flume, 

4,500 

Forist, 

1,950 



Feet. 

Franklin, 

4,904 

Giant’s Stairs, 

3,500 

Goose-Eye, 

3,200 

Green Hills, 

2,390 

Green’s Cliff, 

2,058 


MOUNTAINS.—Continued. 


Green (Effingham), 

2,500 

Green (Waterville), 

3,547 

Guyot, 

4,800 

Hancock, 

4,420 

Hitchcock, 

3,600 

Hope, 

3,000 

Huntington, 

3,800 

Ingalls, 

2,520 

Iron, 

2,800 

Israel, 

2,880 

Jackson, 

4,100 

Jefferson, 

5,714 

Kancamagus, 

3,500 

Kiarsarge, 

3,251 

Kinneo, 

3,427 

Kinsman, 

4,370 

Lafayette, 

5,259 

North Peak, 

5,081 

Eagle Lakes, 

4,146 

Eagle-Cliff Notch, 

2,990 

Langdon, 

2,400 

Liberty, 

4,500 

Lincoln, 

5,100 

Lowell, 

3,850 

Madison, 

5,365 

Melvin Peak, 

2,950 

Middle, 

1,500 

Mist, 

2,243 

Moat, North Peak, 

3,200 

South Peak, 

2,700 

Monroe, 

5,384 

Little Monroe, 

5,220 

Moosilauke, 

4,811 

Moriah, 

4,653 

N ancy, 

3,800 

Osceola, 

4,417 

Ossipee, 

2,361 

Passaconaway, 

4,200 


Percy, North, 

3,336 

Percy, South, 

3,149 

Pilot, 

3.640 

Pleasant, 

4,764 

Pleasant (Lancaster), 

1,896 

Pleasant (Maine), 

2,018 

Prospect (Lancaster), 

2062 

Prospect (Plymouth), 

2,072 

Red Hill, 

2,038 

Resolution, 

3,400 

Royce, 

2,600 

Sandwich Dome, 

3,999 

Scar Ridge (A.) 

3,824 

Squam, 

2,162 

Star King, 

3,943 

Stinson, 

2707 

Sugar-Loaf, 

2565 

Stone, 

3,376 

Streaked, 

1,756 

Table, 

3,305 

Tecumseh, 

4,105 

Thorn, 

.... 

Tin, 

1,650 

Tom, 

3,200 

Tremont, 

3,393 

Tripyramid, 

4,200 

Twins, 

5,000 

Wallace Hill, 

2,124 

Washington, 

6,293 

Nelson’s Crag (A.), 

5,615 

Lion’s Head (A.), 

5,016 

Edge Huntington’s Ra- 

vine (A.), 

5,432 

Boott’s Spur, 

5,524 

Half-way House, 

3,840 

Marshfield, 

2563 

Waumbek, 

3,910 

Jacob’s Ladder, 

5,468 





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Feet. 


Feet. 

Gulf Tank, 

5,800 

Whiteface, 

4,007 

Waternomee, 

3,022 

Wild-Cat, 

4,350 

Webster, 

4,000 

Willard, 

2,570 

Webster’s Slide, 

2,210 

Willey, 

4,300 

Wetamoo, 

2,546 


ALTITUDES OF NOTCHES. 


Carrigan, 

2,465 

Pinkham, 

2,018 

Carter, 

3,320 

Sandwich, 

1,754 

Dixville, 

1,831 

Willey, 

2,799 

Franconia, 

2,014 

White-Mountain 

(Craw- 

Mad-River, 

1,815 

ford), 

1,914 

New-Zealand, 

2,123 



ALTITUDES 

OF LAKES AND PONDS. 

Cherry, 

1,200 

Saco, 

1,880 

Clouds, of the, 

5,053 

Silver, 

456 

Echo (Franconia), 

1,926 

Smith’s, 

540 

Greeley, 

1,815 

Squam, 

510 

Lonesome, 

2,751 

Star, 

4,890 

Long (Whitefield ), 

950 

Stinson, 

990 

Lougeee, 

622 

Sunapee, 

1,090 

Merry-Meeting, 

589 

Trio, 

2,490 

Newfound, 

597 

Umbagog, 

1,256 

Ossipee, 

Pond of Safety, 

408 

Winnepesaukee, 

496-502 

1,973 

Waukawan, 

542 

Profile, 

1,950 




ALTITUDES OF VILLAGES. 

Ashland, 

Alton Bay, 

Berlin Falls, 

Bethlehem, 

Bethlehem Junction, 

Campton Village, 

Centre Harbor, 

Conway Corner, 

Dalton, 

Gorham, 

Groveton, 

Haverhill, 

Jackson, 

Jefferson, 
lericho. 


475 

Lancaster, 

867 

530 

Lisbon, 

577 

1,035 

Littleton (Railroad), 

817 

1,450 

Lunenburg Heights, 

1,639 

1,187 

Meredith, 

542 

594 

Moultonborough, 

581 

553 

Newbury, 

426 

466 

North Conway, 

521 

898 

North Stratford, 

915 

812 

Orford, 

438 

901 

Ossipee, 

642 

710 

Plymouth (Railroad), 

473 

759 

Rumney, 

520 

1,440 

Sandwich, 

648 

784 

Shelburne, 

723 







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South Yarmouth, 

Feet. 

630 

Sugar Hill, 

1,351 

Top of Hill, 

1,895 

Thornton, 

1,223 

Tuftonborough, 

889 

Upper Bartlett, 

664 

ALTITUDES 

Alpine-North 

Woodstock 

Feet. 

1,000 

Blair’s, 

556 

Bretton Arms, 

1,600 

Central House, 

1,428 

Cherry-Mountain, 

1,249 

Crawford, 

1,900 

Elliott’s, 

1,0.36 

Fabyan, 

1,571 

Flume, 

1,431 

Flume House, 

1,400 

Fox’s, 

749 

Franconia, 

1,054 

Glen, 

1,632 

Goodnow, 

1,334 

Gray’s Inn, 

1,000 

Intervale House, 

600 

Maplewood, 

1,489 



Feet. 

Warren, 

736 

Waterville, 

1,553 

West Ossipee, 

428 

Whitefield, 

957 

Woodsville, 

448 

OF HOTELS. 



Feet. 

Mount-Adams, 

1,648 

Mountain View, 

1,279 

New Profile, 

1,974 

Oak-Hill, 

975 

Pollard’s, 

1,490 

Russell House, 

800 

Sanborn’s 

571 

Senter, 

553 

Sinclair, 

1,459 

Starr-King, 

1,437 

The Mount Pleasant 

1,650 

The Mount 


Washington, 

1,600 

Twin-Mountain, 

1,429 

Wentworth Hall, 

1,000 

White-Mountain, 

1,556 

Willey, 

1,323 






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WINTER SPORTS IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS OF NEW 
HAMPSHIRE. 

Recreation, like goodly doing, 

Hath all seasons for its own. 

The popularity of winter sports is evinced by the in¬ 
creasing number of visitors each year to the many hotels 
which open for a winter season. 

In the tingling and invigorating winter atmosphere the 
snow and ice sports afford the most healthful and enjoy¬ 
able of pastimes, exceeding, many think, the conventional 
summer outing. 

Hotels provide all the necessary comforts, even the 
cuisine is adjusted to the needs of the stimulated appetite 
of the outdoor life enthusiast. 

Of the many large parties who sojourn at the various 
winter resorts is the Appalachian Mountain Club of Massa¬ 
chusetts, of 10 or more members, which makes an annual 
fortnight pilgrimage to Jackson about the middle of Feb¬ 
ruary, this time having been selected as the most favorable 
for outdoor pleasures, the high sun and lengthening days 
making conditions best adapted for the long toboggan 
slides, some of which are nearly a mile long, snowshoeing, 
skiing, skating, sleighing, hocky, mountain climbing, ice 
boating, ice polo, etc. In the evenings, after the varied ad¬ 
ventures of the day, when the guests are all drawn to¬ 
gether by the blazing log hearth fire, numerous forms of 
entertainment are enjoyed, such as music and dancing, 
impromptu concerts, card parties, candy pulls, spelling 
bees, and story telling, in which each participates as in¬ 
clination prompts. 




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WHITE-MOUNTAIN GUIDE-BOOK. 


BRIDGTON. 

Houses and Proprietors. Capacity. 

The Cumberland, L. A. Jack, 75 

BROWNFIELD. 

New Cberty Hotel, Isabel H. Stickney, 25 

FRYEBURG. 

Argue-Not-Inn, Mrs. F. W. Thoms, 40 

Ye Inn, Mrs. B. S. Page, 25 

HARRISON. 

Elms Inn, Mrs. David Kneeland, 25 

The Hanford, J. F. Washburn, 30 

BARTLETT. 

Hotel Howard, Wm. IT. Irish, 70 

CAMPTON. 

Pinecroft, Mrs. Anna Lougee, 15 

COLEBROOK. 

Monadnock House, W. S. McConnell, 125 

DIXVILLE NOTCH. 

Balsams Winter Inn, Dixville Notch Corp., 30 

FABYANS. 

Fabyan Annex, Barron, Merrill & Barron Co., 50 

FRANCONIA. 

Peckett’s-on-Sugar-Hill, Robt. P. Pecket, 50 

GORHAM. 

Mt. Madison House, C. A. Chandler, 35 

INTERVALE. 

The Bellevue, J. A. Barnes Sons, 125 

JACKSON. 

Eagle Mountain House, C. E. Gale and Son, 140 
Iron Mountain House, W. A. Meserve, 100 

Nestlenook Cottage, F. M. Dinsmore, 20 

Gray's Inn and Cottages, C. W. Gray, 200 

JEFFERSON. 

Bellevue Cottage, J. E. Dorr, 10 

KEARSARGE. 

Russell Cottages, G. W. Russell, 80 

LITTLETON. 

Chiswick Cottage, N. H. Pearce, 15 

LANCASTER 

Lancaster House, W. E. Wiggin, 125 

Meadow Brook Farm, Mrs. C. W. Clark*, 15 

NORTH CONWAY. 

Hotel Randall, H. H. Randall, 100 

Kearsarge Hall, L. J. Ricker, 30 

Lucy Farm, Mrs. Fred Lucy, 30 


NORTH WOODSTOCK. 


Maplewood Cottage, Mrs. Ida E. Clark, 15 

Mount Adam’s Inn, J. G. Donahue, 75 

STARR KING. 

Cold Spring House, W. H. Crawford, 12 

TWIN MOUNTAIN. 

Rosebrook Inn, John F. Whalen, 50 

WARREN. 

Hillside House, Geo. C. Eastman, 16 

WATERVILLE. 

Elliott’s Hotel and Cottage, D. S. Austin, Mgr., 50 

WOODSTOCK. 

Fern Hill Farm, H. D. Sawyer, 10 


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List of Views 


Hearts 

1. Jacob’s Ladder, Mt. Washington 

2. Above the Clouds, Mt. Washing¬ 
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3. Lake of the Clouds, Mt. Wash¬ 
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4. Enchanted Woods, North Con¬ 
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5. Echo Lake and White Horse 
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6. Dian’s Baths, North Conway, 
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7. Gale River and Mt. Lafayette, 
showing Snow Cross. , 

8. Mts. Garfield, Lafayette and 
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9. Upper Falls of the Ammonoosuc, 

10. Sunset Hill House, Sugar Hill, 
N. H. 

J. Crawford House. 

Q. Wentworth Hall, Jackson, N. H. 

K. Gray’s Inn, Jackson, N. H. 

Spades 

1. Mt Washington in Winter. 

2. Tuckerman's Ravine, Mt. Wash¬ 
ington, over Hermit Lake. 

3 Mt. Washington, from Intervale, 
N. H. 

4. View on Connecticut River, Lan¬ 
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5. Chocorua Mt. and Lake. N. H. 

6. The Flume, Franconia, N. H. 

7. Littleton and Presidential Range, 
N. H. 

8. Profile Lake and Eagle Cliff. 

9. Lake Gloriette and the Balsams, 
Dixville Notch, N. H. 

10. Maplewood Hotel, Maplewood, 
N. H. 

J. From the Maplewood Hotel piaza 

Q. The Intervale House, Intervale, 

N. H. 

K. The Kearsarge, North Conway, 
N. H. 

Diamonds 

1. Heart of the Notch, showing 
Willey Brook Bridge. 


2. Crawford Notch, from Mt 
Willard 

3. Frankenstein Trestle, Crawford 
Notch 

4. Elephant’s Head, Crawford 
Notch 

5. Crawford Notch, One August 
Day 

6. Crawford Notch and Crawford 
House 

7. Great Cut, Gate of Crawford 
Notch. 

8. Crawford House R. R. Station. 

9 Bridal Veil Cascade, Mt. Cannon, 
Franconia M’t ns. 

10. The Mt. Pleasant House. 

J. The Sinclair, Bethlehem, N. H. 

Q The Waumbek Hotel, Jefferson, 

N. H. 

K. Fabyan House, Fabyans, N. H. 

Clubs 

1. The Flume, Dixville Notch, N. H. 

2. Crystal Cascade, Pinkham Notch, 
N. H. 

3. Franconia Mountain, from Sum¬ 
mit of Mt. Agassiz. 

4. Franconia Notch, N H 

5. Eagle Cliff and Profile Road, 
Franconia Notch, N. H. 

6 Bethlehem, from Summit of Mt. 
Agassiz. 

7. Bethlehem Street, West Bethle¬ 
hem, N. H. 

8. Turner’s Path to Mt. Agassiz, 
Bethlehem, N H. 

9. Summit of Mt. Agassiz, Bethle¬ 
hem, N. H. 

10 The Mt Washington, Bretton 
Woods, N. H. 

J Office and Parlor of the Mt. 
Washington Hotel 

Q The Deer Park Hotel, North 
Woodstock, N. H. 

K Profile House, Franconia, N. H. 

Joker: Tip Top House, Mt. Wash¬ 
ington. 


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List of Views 


Diamonds 

1. Union Station, Portland. 

2. Whitehead, Cushing’s Island, 
Portland. 

3. Ottawa House, Cushing’s Island, 
Portland 

4. Gateway to Deering Oaks Park 
Portland. 

5. Pond, Deering Oaks Park, Port¬ 
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6. Lincoln Park, Old Mill Stone, 
Portland. 

7. Casino, Cape Shore. 

8. Cape Theatre, Cape Shore. 

9 Peaks Island Landing, Portland. 

10. Gem Theatre, Peaks Island, 
Portland. 

J. View from Fort Allen Park, 
Portland 

Q. View at Riverton Park, Port¬ 
land. 

K. Outdoor Theatre, Riverton 1 ark 

Hearts 

1. Grand Trunk R. R. Station, 
Portland. 

2. Falmouth Hotel, Portland. 

3. Preble House, Portland. 

4. Columbia Hotel, Portland. 

5. Lafayette Hotel, Portland. 

6. Congress Sq. Hotel, Portland. 

7. West End Hotel, Portland. 

8. Federal Court House, Portland. 

9. County Court House, Portland. 

10. State Loan Co. Building, Port¬ 
land. 

J. Portland Observatory, 1807. 

Q. State Street, Portland. 

K. Western Promenade, Portland. 


Spades 

I. Public Library, Portland. 

2 Keith’s Theatre, Portland. 

3. Jefferson Theatre, Portland. 

5. Portland Theatre, Portland. 

6. Portland Athletic Club, Portland. 

7. Elk’s Home, Portland. 

8. Congress block, Home of Port¬ 
land Club. 

8. Cumberland Club, Portland. 

9. Porland Country Club. 

10. Portland Society of Art, Port¬ 
land. 

J. Nathan Clifford School, Portland. 

Q. Williston Church, Portland. 

K. First Parish Church, Portland. 

Clubs 

1. Longfellow Home, Portland. 

2. Graves of commanders of Enter¬ 
prise and Boxer, Portland. 

3. Stinson Memorial, Eastern Cem¬ 
etery, Portland. 

4. Soldiers’ Monument, Portland. 

5. Longfellow Monument, Portland. 

6. Longfellow’s Birthplace, Port¬ 
land. 

7. Spring Point Ledge Light, Port¬ 
land. 

8. Portland Yacht Club, Portland. 

9 Portland Harbor, after a Storm. 

I. New York Boat Entering Port¬ 
land Harbor. 

J. Boston Boat Entering Portland 
Harbor. 

Q. Orr’s Island Bridge. 

K. Eagle Island, Home of Com¬ 
mander, Robt. E. Peary. 

Joker: New City Hall, Portland. 


For list of views of other souvenir playing cards--“Among the White 
Mountains,” “Maine, the Pine Tree State,’ “Historic Boston,” and “Ver¬ 
mont, the Green Mountain State,’’--see other advertising pages. 

Retail price 50 cents For sale at hotels and stores, or by mail postpaid on 
receipt of price from the publishers. 


Portland, Maine 


CHISHOLM BROTHERS 


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PRINTING 


PUBLISHING 


F. H. Haney Printing Co. 

PRODUCERS OF 

Book and Job Printing 

OF EVERY DESCRIPTION 


PRINTERS OF CHISHOLM’S 

WHITE MOUNTAIN GUIDE BOOK 

SINCE 1913 

90 Gilman Street 

Portland, - Maine 


AD. WRITING ILLUSTRATING 









Vermont—The Green Mountain 

State 


SOUVENIR PLAYING CARDS 


Fifty-three beautiful illustrations covering every point of especial interest 
within the “Green Mountain State.’’ Back shows Vermont State House, 
surrounded by a border of red clover, the State flower. Emblazoned within 
each of the four corners appears the Seal of the State. Cards are with gilt 
edges, and put up in durable and attractive telescope cases. A most pleas¬ 
ing and useful souvenir. 

List of Views 


Hearts 

1. Ruins of Fort Ticonderoga, Vt. 

2. Missisquoi Park, C. V. R. R., 
Highgate Springs, Vt. 

3. Lake Champlain at Highgate 
Springs, Vt. 

4. Main Street, Stowe, Vt. 

5. Moss Glen Falls, Stowe, Vt. 

6. Bird’s-eye View of St. Johns- 
bury, Vt. 

7. Museum of Natural Science, St. 
Johnsbury, Vt. 

8. Spaulding Graded School, Barre, 
Vt. 

9. Granite Quarry, Barre, Vt. 

10. Taylor Park, St. Albans, Vt. 

J. C. V. R. R. Station, St. Albans, 
Vt. 

Q. St. Albans Bay, Vt. 

K. Rocky Point, St. Albans, Vt. 

Spades 

1. Camel’s Hump from C. V. R. R. 

2. Mills at Bethel, Vt., from C. V. 
R. R. Bridge. 

3. High Bridge, at Winooski Gorge, 
Vt. 

4. Old Toll Bridge at Bellows Falls, 
Vt. 

5. C. V. R. R. Bridge, Northfield, 
Vt. 

6. Upper State Street, Montpelier, 
Vt. 

7. Upper Main Street, Moutpelier, 
Vt. 

8. River at Montpelier, Vt. 

9. A Vermont Meadow Scene. 

10. College and Grounds, Middle- 
bury, Vt. 

J. Battell Bridge. Middlebury. Vt. 

Q. A Vermont Dairy Farm. 

K. Town Hall and Main Street, 
Brattleboro, Vt. 

Diamonds 

1. University of Vermont, Burling¬ 
ton. 

2. Lafayette Monument, University 
of Vermont, Burlington. 


3. Ft. Ethan Allen, Burlington, Vt. 

4. Yacht Club and Harbor, Bur¬ 
lington, Vt. 

5. Lake Champlain, from “Red 
Rocks,’’ Burlington, Vt. 

6 The Beach, Queen City Park, 
Burlington, Vt. 

7. Bridge over Missisquoi River, 
Swanton, Vt. 

8. Middlesex Valley, Vt , from C.V. 
R. R 

9. Lake Willoughby, West Burke, 
Vt. 

10. Bird’s-eye View of Wells River, 
Vt. 

J. Lake Mephremagog and New¬ 
port, Vt. 

Q. Mephremagog Yacht Club, New¬ 
port, Vt. 

K. “New England States Limited,’’ 
C. V. R. R. 

Clubs 

1. Battle Monument, Bennington, 
Vt. 

2. Catamount Monument, Benning¬ 
ton, Vt. 

3. White River at Sharon, Vt., on 
line of C. V. R. R. 

4. C. V. R. R. Station, South Royal- 
ton, Vt. 

5. R. R. Bridge over Connecticut 
River. White River Junction, Vt. 

6. ^Summit House, Mount Mansfield, 

7. Rutland R. R. Bridge, Ludlow, 
Vt. 

8. Falls, at Center, Rutland, Vt 

9. Bridge over Big Cut, Rutland 
R R., Summit, Vt. 

10. Otter Creek, Vergennes, Vt. 

J. Young Sugar Makers, Vt. 

Q. Steamer “Vermont,” Lake 
Champlain. 

K. Getting Out Logs in the Green 
Mountains. 

Joker: Ethan Allen Monument, 

Burlington, Vt. 


For list of views of other souvenir playing card editions--“Amomr the 
White Mountains, ‘Portland-By-The-Sea,” “Historic Boston,” and 
Maine, the Pine Tree State,” see other advertising pages. Retail price 50 
cents. For sale at hotels and stores, or by mail postpaid on receipt of nrioe 
from the publishers, CHISHOLM BROTHERS, Portland, Me. ^ P 







MAIL ORDERS 

FOR ANY 

SOUVENIRS 

MENTIONED IN THESE PAGES 

Also Selections from Colored 
White Mountain Post Cards of 
Superior Merit 

PROMPTLY FILLED BY 

Chisholm Brothers 

283 St. John Street, Portland, Maine 


First to Introduce Scenic Post Cards 
into the United States 







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' SELECT SOUVENIRS 

of your White Mountain Trip wisely from the 
following beautiful, instructive, lasting,-every one “a thing 
of beauty and a joy forever,”—not the kind soon cast aside. 

Among the White Mountains Souvenir 
Playing Cards, fifty-four views, different view on 
every card. 50c. 

Views of the White Mountains, beau¬ 
tiful cover in colors, containing fifty full page half-tone 
views with descriptive texts. 25c. 

) Chisholm’s Folder DeLuxe of the White Moun- I 1 
) tains, nineteen full page views in colors with text 10c 
fj Neither expense nor effort have been spared in mak¬ 
ing this work superior to all others in selection of subjects, 
excellence of photography and perfection of color effects. ( 
Ask to see the De Luxe Postal Cards, made from the (( 
same plates. Their Beauty will surprise and please you. , 

<1 For sale in Sets in artistic Carrying Cases, or Singly, 
on all trains and at all mountain souvenir booths. 

( Mail them to your Friends. 

For forty years, originators and manufacturers of 
White Mountain souvenirs of the ‘‘worth while kind”. 

Mail orders filled. 

Chisholm Brothers 

283 St. John St. Portland, Maine 

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1 MAINE'S DISTINCTIVE HOTELS 


The Mount Kineo House, Moosehead Lake, Kineo, Me. will 

open for the seventy-third season on June 26th, closing on Sep¬ 
tember 24th. 1917. 

The S am-O-seT, Rockland Breakwater, Penobscot Bay, Me. 

two miles north of the City of Rockland, will open for the season 
of 1917 on June 16th, and will continue until September 10th. 

Both hotels owned by and under the direct management of 

The Ricker Hotel Company 

The Mount Kineo House, accommodating 500 guests, is a dis¬ 
tinctive summer hotel, magnificently furnished, and with every 
modern comfort and luxury. 

The Sam-O-seT with accommodations for 300 guests, is a beauti¬ 
ful modern structure, setting back from the sea about a thousand 
feet, catering exclusively to a discriminating clientele. 

Delightful boating, bathing, driving, tennis, golf, riding and 
motoring. Cuisine unexcelled. 


Handsome Booklets forwarded on application 


Maine Central Railroad operate through parlor car service from 
Portland to Montreal and Quebec via Crawford Notch and Moun¬ 
tain Division. Through sleeping car service from Portland to 
Montreal via the Mountain Division, Boston & Maine and Cana¬ 
dian Pacific Railway daily. 


| F. C. MOORE, Manager G. A. JUDKINS, Manager 

THE SAM O-SET MOUNT KINEO HOUSE 

| Rockland Breakwater, Maine. Kineo, Maine 


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White Mountains 

HE NEW PROFILE HOUSE was erected 
in 1906 on the site of the former Profile 
House, which for so many years was 
favored with a clientele of the highest order. 

It is one of the largest and best equipped of the leading 
resort hotels of the country, and with its twenty connected 
cottages accomodates five hundred guests. 

The entire estate of The Hotels Company, comprising 
six thousand acres of land, and extending for nine miles 
through the Franconia Notch, makes a magnificent pre¬ 
serve which includes more objects of rare picturesque 
beauty and interest than any region of similar extent in 
New England. 

Associated with the ideal tour, particularly attractive 
and largely patronized by automobilists throughout New 
England. 

Profile and Flume Hotels Company 

C. H. Greenleaf, Pres. A. E. DICK, Mgr. 

Everett B. Rich, Asst. 



Affiliated City House 

HOTEL VENDOME, BOSTON 


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IN THE HEART OF THE 

WHITE MOUNTAINS 

OF 

NEW HAMPSHIRE 


The Crawford House 

At entrance to famous Crawford Notch 

The Twin Mountain House 

Western approach to the Big Valley 
Post Office at each hotel 

THE BARRON HOTEL COMPANY 

The Fabyan House 

Starting point to summit of Mt. Washington 

The Summit House 

AND 

Tip-Top House 

Top of Mt. Washington 
Goal of the Flying Machine 
Post Office at each hotel 

THE BARRON, MERRILL & BARRON CO. 

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WEST END HOTEL 

F. J. HARRIGAN, Proprietor 

(OPPOSITE UNION STATION, PORTLAND, MAINE) 



Cafeteria—Meals from 6 A. M. till 12 P. M. 

Rooms $1.00 and up 

Admirable Location Thoroughly First Class in Every Feature 


THE SINCLAIR HOTEL 

White Mountains 

Bethlehem, - - New Hampshire 

HARRINGTON & McAULIFFE 

ENLARGED - REMODELLED - REFURNISHED 
Rates $4,00 per day and upwards 

free from hay fever 

BETHLEHEM COUNTRY CLUB 

New 18 Hole Golf Links 6026 yards Tennis 

New Club House Shower Baths 

Winter Hotel—HOTEL ALCAZAR, Florida East Coast 
Hotel Co., Flagler System. St. Augustine, Florida. 

WILLIAM McAULIFFE, Manager 









Wkite Horse Villa Farm 

and Bungalows 

The Villa accommodates thirty guests. The Bungalows eight and 
twenty-two respectfully. Teims $8 to $10 per week. Delightfully situated 
on a high natural terrace sixty feet above and overlooking the beautiful Saco 
River and Valley affording a fine view of White Horse Ledge and but a 
short walk to Echo Lake. 

Guests are met by automobile at North Conway Station, 2 1 -2 miles 
from farm. 

Tables supplied with fruit and vegetables, milk and cream from our 
own farm. 


Open May 1 st to Nov. 1 5th. 


Everybody Should Read 

The eight moral and corking-good Tramp Life Tales by 



The Famous Tramp Author 

These are the titles of the “A. No. 1” Tramp Stories: 

Book No. 1: “Life and Adventures of A. No. 1.” 

Book No. 2: “Hobo-Camp-Fire-Tales.” 

Book No. 3: “The Curse of Tramp Life.” 

Book No. 4: “The Trail of the Tramp.” 

Book No. 3: “The Adventures of a Female Tramp.” 

Book No. 6: The Ways of the Hobo.” 

Book No. 7: “The Snare of the Road.” 

Book No. 8: “From Coast to Coast with Jack London.” 


USTThey are sold by News Agents aboard of Trains 
and at News Stands. 




The Mt. Washington 

and Cottage Annex 

BETHLEHEM, N. H. 

Accommodates 1 00 

1 500 feet above the sea level. 

“The Switzerland of America” is in the Hub of the 
White Mountains. 

A number of New Rooms with Private Baths and 
large new Foyer. 

Everything Modern. Golf Links. Open July 1st. 

Terms on Application. R. N. GORDON, Prop. 


RUSSELL HOUSE 

JENNIE M. RUSSELL & CO. 


RUSSELL HOUSE, IN THE WHITE 
MOUNTAINS 

North Woodstock, N. H. 


gEAUTIFULLY located; short distance from station; 

modern, large airy rooms; excellent home board; good 
hunting, fishing; all out-door amusements; auto meets all 
trains; auto parties accommodated; garage. Large open 
fires. Open all the year. Booklet. 





HILDRETH’sl 



MOLASSES 

CANDY^^ 

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Nothing LiKe It! Try It! 

For Sale Everywhere. 


Factory: - - BOSTON, MASS* 













Peters' Sweet Milk Chocolate 

HIGH AS THE ALPS IN QUALITY 



PLAIN AND WITH ALMONDS 


Ideal for the beiween-meal hunger when 
exercising or traveling 


For Sale on all Trains and at 
all Hotels 


ASK FOR 



IT’S THE BEST 


Lamont, Corliss & Company 

131 Hudson Street, N. I 

SELLING AGENTS 




















HOTEL VENDOME 

COMMONWEALTH AVE. AT DARTMOUTH STREET 

BOSTON, MASS. 



THE VENDOME, with unexcelled appointments 
and clientele, is one of the largest and most 
beautifully situated hotels in Boston. 

FACING COMMONWEALTH AVENUE AT DARTMOUTH STREET 

in the center of the residential district, it is most 
desirable for automobile parties, transient 
and permanent guests. 

ASSOCIATED WITH THE IDEAL TOUR. NEARBY GARAGE 
BEST IN THE CITY. 

C. H. GREEN LEAF & CO., Proprietors 
Everett B. Rich, Managing Partner 

Summer Hotel, New Profile House and Cottages, White Mountains 

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AND COTTAGES 



WHITE MOUNTAINS 


OPENS JUNE 30 

A SELECT FAMILY HOTEL 

Golf, Tennis, Riding, Driving and all Out-door 
Attractions 

Fine Roads for Automobiling 
Large Garage in Connection with Hotel 

Automobiles to let by the day or week for 
touring the White Mountains 

For Illustrated Booklet apply to 

Herbert S. Mudgett, Prop. 

INTERVALE, N. H. 


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